Benjamin Flatz

Benjamin Flatz received transit visa no. 39 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 27 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 37.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

37

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Henryka (35), child Ryszard (4)

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Henryka — wife, aged 35
• Ryszard — child, aged 4

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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 7846, Benjamin Flausz, born 1903 at Warszawa, who had come from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and his wife Henryka and son Ryszard stand a few lines below.
• 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 168 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 38, born at Warsaw, a merchant, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 13 February 1941.
• 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 986); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026
• 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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad has Beniamin Flantz, born in 1903, with his wife and son. Sugihara's ledger writes the name Flanz; the list writes Flantz.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 28 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed in La-karov ve-la-rachok on 28 March 1946, has Benjamin Flantz, born in 1903 at Warsaw, a merchant, who came in 1941 by way of Kaunas and Siberia, with his wife Henryka and their son. Sugihara's ledger writes the name Flanz; this list writes Flantz.

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