Michal Weissbard

Michal Weissbard received transit visa no. 440 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records clerk, aged 41.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

41

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Brazil.

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.192, age 41, b. Warsaw, Clerk, arr 2.1, left Brazil 21.1
• 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 2 Jan 1941 (line 440)