Karafka Dawid

Karafka Dawid received transit visa no. 2102 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 21 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 36.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

36

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

Reached Japan.

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…
  8185, Ozorkow, 1904
• 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…
  128, 1904 Ozorkow; uncle S.Karafka Patterson NY, uncle Oppenheim Los Angeles
• The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…
  233, 37, b. Ozorkow, Clerk, arr. 25.2, from Vilno
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1521) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Karafka Dawid, private clerk, born 8 March 1904 Ozorkow, married — wife TOLA born 20 November 1905 Lodz; Kwenming Road; registered 14 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (K-176, 5 December 1941).
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 25 Feb 1941 (line 2102)