Chaim Luzer Solnik

Chaim Luzer Solnik received transit visa no. 456 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 28 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

28

The journey

Destination given in the Kitade-Bluman list: Palestine.

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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 5322, Chaim Luzer Solnik, born 1912 at Czerwin, who had come from Warsaw; the year agrees with the register's age.
• HaTzofe, 17 January 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Chaim Luzer Solnik was one of the leaders of HeChalutz HaMizrachi, the religious pioneer movement, who reached the Land of Israel from Lithuania in January 1941. HaTzofe reported on 17 January 1941 that among the Polish refugees who had arrived from Lithuania in the last few days was a Mizrachi group, among them members of the movement's centre, Shalom Granek, Chaim Solnik and Yaakov Frisch (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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