Samson Perlitz
Visa no. 45 · Kaunas, 27 July 1940
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…
Entry 342 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 38, born at Odessa, a technician, who arrived in Japan on 3 February 1941. - 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 - Manifest of alien passengers, SS President Taft, sailing from Yokohama 28 May 1941, arrived San Francisco date not read (US National Archives, M1410, film 370; read on FamilySearch's copy)
The President Taft's manifest, Yokohama to San Francisco in May–June 1941 (US National Archives, read on FamilySearch's copy), lists Samson Perlitsch, 37, an export manager born in Odessa and last living in Warsaw, with his wife Pola, going to his cousin J. Lynch in Louisville, Kentucky; he had visited New York for six weeks in 1939.
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