Lisbeth Lasdun

Lisbeth Lasdun received transit visa no. 427 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 37 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

37

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #426

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…
  Entry 53 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 37, born at Memel.
• Oral history interview with Edith Hamer (née Finkelstein) — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 54889, Houston, Texas, 11 Novemb… — Theodor Finkelstein, No. 1680; another relative reached Bolivia on false papers (13:02)
  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)
• Find a Grave, Cedar Park Cemetery, Paramus, Bergen County, New Jersey — Ernest Lasdun, memorial 235273882
  The Lasduns' gravestone at Cedar Park Cemetery, Paramus, New Jersey, read by the archive on 4 October 2026, gives Lisbeth Lasdun's dates as 1904–1979; she lies beside her husband Ernst (No. 426), whose stone reads 13 August 1892 – 26 July 1951. The years agree with the register's compiled ages for the couple.

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