Herman Bock

Herman Bock received transit visa no. 326 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records engineer, aged 30.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

30

Occupation

Engineer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Marja (26)

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Argentina.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Marja — wife, aged 26

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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…
  484, Warszawa, b.1910, from Warszawa
• 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…
  #2, 30, b. Warsaw, Engineer, from Vilno, arr 14.12., left for Buenos A. 21.1.41