Jehuda Lindwaser

Jehuda Lindwaser received transit visa no. 242 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 31.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

31

Occupation

Manufacturer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Dworja (30)

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Australia.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Dworja — wife, aged 30

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

• 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.108, age 33, b. Warsaw, Manufacturer, arr. 25.1.
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1102); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Lindwaser Jehuda Lajb, merchant, born 26 October 1908 Warsaw, married — wife DWOJRA, of Warsaw; 765 Tongshan Road; passport L-64 (Ser. I 734166) issued by the Shanghai consulate 25 August 1941.
• 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 25 Jan 1941 (line 242)