Jakob Imber

Jakob Imber received transit visa no. 224 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 40 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

40

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Ewa (32), b Katowice

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Ewa — wife, aged 32

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…
  7048; Barki niielkie 1900 arszawa
• 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…
  #368, 21, Rozana, yeshiva, Polish (ditto Zakhejm)
• 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…
  #17, 19, b. Turek, Student, from Vilnius, left for Palestine