Blumental Mordka

Blumental Mordka received transit visa no. 2100 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 21 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 44.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

44

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

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

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…
  748; 1895; from Warszawa
• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  28, 46, Staszow, merchant; aunt Regina Natanblut 3130 Brighton 6 str Brooklyn NY, cousin B.Berkowicz 6574 Sounders str Forest Hills NY
• "List of persons arriving on route to New Zealand" — the arrival roster for the sailing from Japan, September 1941: 33 typed names, from Dr George Bluman’s own marked-up copy (sent 18 Aug 2026). Bluman’s red ticks mark the passengers he…
  Named on the list of persons arriving on route to New Zealand, sailing from Japan in 1941. The register spells it Blumental.