Samson Perlitz

Samson Perlitz received transit visa no. 45 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 27 July 1940. The register records technician, aged 38.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

38

Occupation

Technician

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #44

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; 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…
  No 342, 38, Odessa, Technical, 3.2
• hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Samson Perlitsch, San Francisco, 1941
  "San Francisco Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Samson Perlitsch, 1941. NARA M1410. Match: register No.45 reads 'amson Perlitsch' - the ledger lost the initial S - age 38, technician, Polish, reached Japan, destination USA; the manifest gives Samson Perlitsch, born 1904 in Poland, arriving