Ajchenblat Emanuel

Ajchenblat Emanuel received transit visa no. 394 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 53.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

53

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #404

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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…
  Entry 4 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1887 at Zakrzyze, Polish; relatives abroad: a brother, M. A. Eichenblatt, 2181 Wallace Avenue, Bronx, 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…
  Entry 58 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 54, born at Zakrzyrze, a merchant, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 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 1120) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Ajchenblat vel Eichenblatt Emanuel, merchant, born 1887, married; registered 11 September 1941; 1248 Rue Lafayette apt 19; Warsaw passport of 15 September 1938 extended in Warsaw 1939, by the British Legation in Kaunas 1939 and 26 July 1940, and by the Embassy in Tokyo 1 August 1941.
• National Archives and Records Administration, Alien Case Files (Record Group 566), catalog descriptions read through the NARA Catalog API
  The National Archives holds an alien case file for Emanuel Eichenblatt (also written Ajchenblat), born 17 November 1887 in Poland, who entered the United States at San Francisco on 26 September 1946 (file A6431855, NARA catalog NAID 608682916). The name and the birth year agree with the register's line, and the port and date of entry are the route's.
• 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 Emanuel Eichenblatt, aged 51, of Warsaw, who was in Wilno during the war, beside a card for his wife Elka. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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