Leon Feit

Leon Feit received transit visa no. 257 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 33.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

33

Occupation

Lawyer

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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 8863, Leon Feit, born 1908 at Jadronow, who had come from Jordanow; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and Jordanów agrees with what the archive already holds.
• 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…
  Entry 60 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1907 at Jordanow, Polish; relatives abroad: a brother, Edmund Feit, 656 Elvens Avenue, New York City; a cousin, Robert Levin, 1655 East 24th Street, New York.
• 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 154 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 34, born at Jordanow, a lawyer, who arrived in Japan on 13 February 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 257)
• Tadeusz Romer papers, Library and Archives Canada, MG 31 D 68, vol. 2 (microfilm reel C-10451, frame 1088): 'Lista obywateli polskich ewakuowanych z Dalekiego Wschodu… — cited by link only (Canadiana Heritage); frame image not republished
  Named on the Polish Embassy's list of Polish citizens evacuated from the Far East on the exchange ship s/s Kamakura Maru, Shanghai, 16 August 1942 — one of the 41 'civilian refugees' for whom Ambassador Romer obtained places (evacuee no. 68, 'FEIT mec. Leon'); the party sailed with Romer to Lourenco Marques and most went on to England
• Library and Archives Canada, Tadeusz Romer fonds, MG 31 D 68, reel C-10452, frame 625, via Canadiana Heritage — a Polish Embassy list of 41 Polish refugees, filed among Romer's Shanghai-period papers — page 1, entries 1-10 (Bajer, Bram a…
  On the Polish Embassy's list of 41 Polish refugees (Romer's Shanghai-period papers) (Romer fonds, reel C-10452, frame 625, entry 8): FEIT Leon, Mr. praw, adwokat, born 1907; passport 395/729/25/VIII/41, Tokio 10.8.41, do 10.8.1945 — Holds a Canadian visa valid for the duration of the war, issued in Tokyo 3.12.41 No. 613, and an Australian transit visa issued by the British Consulate in Tokyo 4.12.41 No. 27763 for 3 months. Failing Canada, wishes to go to Kenya, where he has family.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 28 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 28 March 1946, lists Leon Feit: born 1907 at Turdanow, a lawyer, arrived in 1941 from Vilno by way of Kobe; the year, the town and the trade agree with the 1940 Vilna refugee list, the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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