Ernst Lasdun

Ernst Lasdun received transit visa no. 426 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 47.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

47

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

children (Dagmar, Gerhard)

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• 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.52, age 47, born Koenigsberg, Merchant, from Kaunas, arr. 24.12
• Oral history interview with Edith Hamer (née Finkelstein) — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 54889, Houston, Texas, 11 November 1998 (interviewer Larry Steinfeld; held with Holocaust Museum Houston). Born Kaunas 14…
  Named in Edith Hamer's USC Shoah Foundation testimony (interview 54889, tape 1, 14:04-14:24): the Lasdun family — Ernst, his wife Lisbett, children Dagmar and Gary — held German passports and Sugihara visas she gives as 'numbers 426 and 427'; they reached Kobe just after the Finkelsteins (Nos. 7-8) and, she says, were unable to leave Kobe — the witness's recollection, recorded as testimony — tape 2 (07:12-07:20): a group photograph with the daughter Dagmar Lasdun, 'who also received a Sugihara visa but ended up in a ghetto in Shanghai' (the witness's words; the family's Shanghai years are otherwise undocumented here)