Stefan Barasz

Stefan Barasz received transit visa no. 350 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 36.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

36

Occupation

Lawyer

The journey

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

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 342, Stefan Baran, born 1905 at Łódź, who came from Łódź; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and the town with what the archive already holds for this line.
• 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 5 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 36, born at Lodz, a lawyer, who arrived in Japan on 3 January 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 3 Jan 1941 (line 350)
• "California, Los Angeles, Passenger Lists, 1907-1948", FamilySearch — index entry for Stefan Barasz, 1941: born about 1905, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1764 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at Los Angeles). Rea…
  FamilySearch's index of the Los Angeles passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Stefan Barasz, born about 1905 in Poland, arriving at Los Angeles in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1904, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Los Angeles in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.

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