Natan Flancrejch

Natan Flancrejch received transit visa no. 300 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 30.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

30

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

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

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 1310, Natan Flancrajch, born 1910 at Warszawa, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 66 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1910 at Warsaw, Polish; relatives abroad: a brother and sister, Jacob Flancreich and the engineer Pricker, Shenkin 44, Tel Aviv; an uncle, Philipp Kleinman, 19 Hartley Avenue, East Ham, London E.6; a cousin, Jacob Flancreich, 170 Riverdall Street, Brooklyn, 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 167 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 31, born at Warsaw, a merchant, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 14 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 14 Feb 1941 (line 300)
• Haaretz, 2 February 1942, and HaTzofe, 3 February 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  In February 1942 Natan Flancrejch was among the immigrants on their way from India to the Land of Israel listed by Haaretz (2 February) and HaTzofe (3 February 1942) (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press). The archive counts this as a corroboration under its rule of 19 September 2026: the list is a record of the Sugihara route itself, the Jewish Agency's own roll of the Kobe refugees sent on through Bombay; the full name occurs once on the register; and India in the winter of 1941–42 is where that road ran. No second personal fact has yet been found.
• HaMashkif, 18 and 19 September 1941, and HaBoker, 25 September 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  In September 1941 Natan Flancrejch sent a greeting from Japan to Ignacy Goldhart in Palestine, printed in HaMashkif on 18 September and HaBoker on 25 September 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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