Abraam Walach

Visa no. 228 · Kaunas, 30 July 1940

Abraam Walach received transit visa no. 228 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records farmer, aged 31.

What the register records

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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…
The Kobe Jewish Community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad enters Abraham Emanuel Wallach, 32, a farmer born in Kraków, with a sister in New York. (The Jewish Community of Kobe, list of refugees and their relatives abroad, 1941; JDC Archives.)
Library and Archives Canada, Tadeusz Romer fonds, MG 31 D 68, reel C-10452, frame 628, via Canadiana Heritage — the same list, page 4, entries 33-41 (Rathaus, Rabbi Siemiatycki, the Waldberg sisters, Wallach, Rabbi Wysokier and wife, Zau…
The Polish Embassy's list of 41 Polish refugees, among Tadeusz Romer's Shanghai papers, has Abraham Emanuel Wallach, a farmer, born in 1909, holding a Cuban visa issued at Kobe in June 1941 with Mexican and South African transit visas, and asking, if they could not be used, to be sent to England. Sugihara's ledger lost the first letter of his surname; the list has it in full.