Balter Jonas

Balter Jonas received transit visa no. 2030 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lubavitsch yeshiva, aged 17.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

17

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Lubavitsch Yeshiva

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

Where this comes from

• List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
  747; b.Ostrowiec 1923; from Lublin
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  No 111; 1923 Ostrowiec; Polish; uncle Rosed Celestyn, Brasil, Sao-Paulo, Rue Irasna 138 B.R.