Majer Ochrimsky
Visa no. 230 · Kaunas, 30 July 1940
Majer Ochrimsky received transit visa no. 230 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records clerk, aged 50.
What the register records
- Nationality as recorded
- Polnisch
- Age in 1940
- 50
- Occupation
- Clerk
- Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
- also Teofila (35), Josef (48), Pola (32)
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Australia.
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…
The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 7703, Mejer Ochrymski, born 1891 at Narewka, who had come from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and Narewka agrees with what the archive already holds. - 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…
Entry 504 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 50, born at Narewka, a clerk. - 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 3 Feb 1941 (line 230) - JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
He left Kobe on the Kasima Maru on 6 July 1941, bound for Australia (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Ochrymski Mejer, ″ Teofila; Ochrymski Josef, ″ Pola". (Kasima Maru, Kobe, 6 July 1941, destination Australia.)
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