Mendel Kamien

Mendel Kamien received transit visa no. 429 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records student, aged 26.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

26

Occupation

Student

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Australia.

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 2799, Mendel Kamien, born 1914 at Warsaw, who had come from Otwock; the year agrees with the register's age and Warsaw agrees with the archive's other records.
• 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 125 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1914 at Warszawa; relatives abroad: a father, Lionel Cumming, care of Lesslie Dunbar, Croydon, Sydney.
• 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 237 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 27, born at Warsaw, a student, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 24 February 1941.
• 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 429)
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  He left Kobe on the Kasima Maru on 6 July 1941, bound for Australia (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Kamien Mendel — Polish — Kobe — Australia". (Kasima Maru, Kobe, 6 July 1941, destination Australia.)
• 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 Mendel Kamien, a student born in 1914, of Otwock, who was in Wilno during the war; the year, the town and his studies agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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