Majer Klejn

Majer Klejn received transit visa no. 453 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 27 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

27

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother-in-law of #455

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

What is known

This is a Polish certificate (Zaswiadczenie/Certificat) issued by the Polish Legation (Poselstwo Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) in Kaunas, Lithuania, for Majer Klejn, born 15 July 1913 in Warsaw, a married student. The document, dated 25 November 1939, was issued in lieu of a passport and authorized him to travel abroad, confirming he was a Polish citizen.

Where this comes from

• List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
  #Seis, b.1912, Baranowicze
• A document held in the archive's files
• A document held in the archive's files
• Yad Vashem (ex-Warhaftig bundle): Majer Klejn — Polish Legation certificate Nr. K-3??, b. 15 Jul 1913 Warszawa, student, issued 25 Nov 1939