Gross Priva

Gross Priva received transit visa no. 2133 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 23 August 1940. Aged 29 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polisch

Age in 1940

29

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband Feliks (34)--lawyer

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Feliks — husband, aged 34

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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…
  #2163, 1911
• 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…
  No.64, age 50, b. Wieliczka