Majer Ochrimsky

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…
  7703, b.1391 Narewka, from Warszawa
• 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 504, 50, Narewka, 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)