Boruch Piekarz

Boruch Piekarz received transit visa no. 380 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records clerk, aged 32.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

32

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for South Africa.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  213, 1908; uncle Sendel Wagman Utica 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…
  No 344, 33, Clerk, 24.2
• 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 24 Feb 1941 (line 380)
• S.S. Manila Maru, Kobe to South Africa, 29 May 1941 — list of refugee passengers, HICEM meeting half the cost of the passages. JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00053, item 00766. One sheet carries four sailings; this is…
  Named on the passenger list of the Manila Maru, which sailed from Kobe for South Africa on 29 May 1941. A sailing list rather than an arrival record: it shows the journey begun, not finished.