Mojzesz Gutgeld

Mojzesz Gutgeld received transit visa no. 450 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Lawyer

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for New Zealand.

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…
  Entry 99 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1911 at Warszawa.
• 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 266 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 30, born at Warsaw, a lawyer, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 February 1941.
• "List of persons arriving on route to New Zealand" — the arrival roster for the sailing from Japan, September 1941: 33 typed names, from Dr George Bluman’s own marked-up cop… — September 1941, not July; he had misread his own handwriting.
  Named on the list of persons arriving on route to New Zealand, sailing from Japan in 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 25 Feb 1941 (line 450)
• HaMashkif, 18 and 19 September 1941, and HaBoker, 25 September 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: a Moshe Gutgeld in Japan sent a greeting to his father Zeev Gutgeld in Tel Aviv in September 1941 (HaMashkif, 18 September; HaBoker, 25 September) (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press). It is shown as a lead: the register's Mojżesz Gutgeld, a Warsaw lawyer, went on to New Zealand, and nothing yet ties the father in Tel Aviv to him.

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