Georg Lieberfreund

Georg Lieberfreund received transit visa no. 30 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 27 July 1940. The register records engineer, aged 27.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

27

Occupation

Engineer

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; 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…
  3619, Wysoko-Brzeg, 1912, from Krakow
• 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…
  172, 1912 Wysoki Brzeg; uncle Katz Bialik str Haifa
• 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…
  #420, 29, b. Wysoki Brzeg, Ing., from Vilno
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — entry for George Jerry Lieberfreund, 1947. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410, roll 394, "Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at San Francisco, Californ…
  San Francisco, 1947, aboard the Marine Adder — one of the transports that carried Shanghai's refugees to America after the war. Age 35, born about 1912 in Poland; the register gives his age in 1940 as 27 and his nationality as Polish. The register also records, from an entirely separate source, that he reached Shanghai. The ship is the agreement: neither record states the other's fact, and the Marine Adder sailed from there. Seven years lie between the visa and the landing.
• 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 1269) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943
• 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 Feb 1941 (line 30)