Leopold Lajzerowicz

Leopold Lajzerowicz received transit visa no. 431 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records physician, aged 45.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

45

Occupation

Physician

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #430, children (Stanislaw (12), Alexander (9))

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Stanislaw — child, aged 12
• Alexander — child, aged 9

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

• 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 405 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 46, born at Czestochowa, a physician, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 13 February 1941; left for San Francisco on 27 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 431)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Leopold Laizerowicz, 1941: born about 1895, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franc…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Leopold Laizerowicz, born about 1895 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1895, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS President Coolidge, sailing from Kobe, Japan, February 28 (day uncertain), 1941, arrived San Francisco date not read (US National Archives, M1410, film 368; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  The National Archives' San Francisco passenger list (FamilySearch's copy) shows Dr Leopold Lajzerowicz, physician, born in Częstochowa, sailing from Kobe on the President Coolidge in February 1941 with his wife Eva and their two sons, travelling on to New York on an American transit visa issued in Moscow on 28 January 1941. The calling of physician and the two sons are what the register's compilers recorded for him.
• 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 7078, Lajzerowicz Leopold, born 1895 at Częstochowa, who came from Warsaw, with Lajzerowicz Ewa, born 1892, beside him; the year agrees with the age the register gives, and the town with what the archive already holds.

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