Emil Katz
Visa no. 365 · Kaunas, 30 July 1940
Emil Katz received transit visa no. 365 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 59.
What the register records
- Nationality as recorded
- Polnisch
- Age in 1940
- 59
- Occupation
- Merchant
- Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
- husband of #366
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.
Where this comes from
- 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 1061) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Katz Emil, merchant, born 9 August 1880 Grzymalow, married — wife OTTYLIA born 7 November 1887 (the register's No.366 Otilija); 120 Yinkee Road; passport K-120 (Ser. I 739143) issued by the Shanghai consulate 20 June 1941, valid to 22 June 1942. - JDC Archives, New York, collection AR33-44 fi… — “List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai and Harbin in the month of May 1941”, compiled by the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Named in the Kobe committee's list of persons who left Japan for Shanghai and Harbin in the month of May 1941 (JDC Archives). Katz Emil, Polish, sailed from Nagasaki for Shanghai on 14 May 1941 aboard the Nagasaki Maru with Ottylja. He registered with the Polish consulate at Shanghai, which is where a man on that sailing would turn up. - 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 Emil Kac, born in 1880, of Łódź, who was in Wilno during the war, and beside it a card for his wife Otylja, which names her husband Emil; the year and his wife agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
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