Jankiel-Newach Czyz received transit visa no. 445 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records rabbinical teacher, aged 40.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
40
Occupation
Rabbinical Teacher
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Hinda (28), son Artur (3)
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Hinda — wife, aged 28
Artur — son, aged 3
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 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… 53; age 45; b. Lodz; manuf.; brother S.Czyz Montevideo Ro del 1189 Uruguay, cousin Elias I.Epstein 562 Vionwood Ave Cincinnati Ohio
hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: CZYZ Jankiel JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 18: CZYZ Jankiel, file no. 1953. Match: register No.445 'Jankiel-Newach Czyz', and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree. NOTE: the index carries