Isak Wofsi

Isak Wofsi received transit visa no. 251 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 33 in 1940.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

33

The journey

Destination given in the Kitade-Bluman list: USA.

Where this comes from

• JDC Archives, New York: the Munich emigration department's index cards, case 5627 — Isaak Wofsi (b. 14 June 1907, Dvinsk) and Regina Wofsi (b. 7 July 1913, Łódź), Landsberg DP camp, destination United States, 14–30 April 1946 (copies fro…
  The JDC Archives' index cards of the Joint's Munich emigration department: Isaak Wofsi, born 14 June 1907 at Dvinsk (Daugavpils) in Latvia, living at the Landsberg displaced-persons camp, opened his emigration case with the Joint on 14 April 1946 with the United States as his destination, accompanied by Regina Wofsi; the card was marked closed on 30 April 1946. The register gives his age as 33 in July 1940, which fits a birth in 1907, and the couple on the card are the couple on two neighbouring lines of the register, a surname that occurs nowhere else on it. Found by David Rosen, October 2026.
• Rio de Janeiro immigration cards, 1900–1965 (Arquivo Nacion… — index entries for Regine Wofsi (also indexed as Regine Fabelinski) and Isaac Wofsi, arriving at Rio de Janeiro; dates masked on the copies sent by David Rosen, 16 October 2026
  A possible onward record, not yet confirmed: the index to the immigration cards of Rio de Janeiro held by the Arquivo Nacional in Brazil lists an Isaac Wofsi arriving at Rio de Janeiro, with a Regine Wofsi on the same index. The copy sent to the archive masks the dates and the birth details, so nothing yet ties the card to this man beyond the name and the pairing. Found by David Rosen, October 2026, who has not yet found the ship.
• Arolsen Archives, Bad Arolsen, collection 3.1.1.1 (DP registration records), folder DP4568: the A.E.F. displaced-persons registration record of Isaak Wofsi, G 11247562, registered 4 January 1946 at the St. Ottilien assembly centre, with…
  The Arolsen Archives, Bad Arolsen, hold his displaced-persons registration card: Isaak Wofsi, born 14 June 1907 at Dvinsk, an industrialist whose home in 1938 was Łódź, registered on 4 January 1946 at the St. Ottilien assembly centre in Bavaria with Palestine as his desired destination. The card's remarks record him as a former prisoner of the Stutthof concentration camp, number 11314, and give his wife's registration number; a later index card has him at Landsberg. The birth date and birthplace are those on the Joint's Munich card. Read in the Arolsen Archives' online collections, October 2026.
• Arolsen Archives, Bad Arolsen, collection 3.1.1.1 (DP registration records), folder DP4568: the A.E.F. displaced-persons registration record of Isaak Wofsi, G 11247562, registered 4 January 1946 at the St. Ottilien assembly centre, with…

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