Fain Lejzor Mordkowicz

Fain Lejzor Mordkowicz received transit visa no. 274 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records pharmacist, aged 35.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

35

Occupation

Pharmacist

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

Where this comes from

• 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… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  He left Kobe on the Manila Maru on 29 May 1941, bound for South Africa (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Fajn Lejzor". (Manila Maru, Kobe, 29 May 1941.)
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Eliezer Fein, a master of pharmacy born in 1905, of Brześć, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and the profession agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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