Dawid Zajdband

Dawid Zajdband received transit visa no. 496 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records student, aged 20.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

20

Occupation

Student

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Paraguay.

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 6353, Dawid Zajdband, born 1919 at Golonów, who had come from Łódź; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 299 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1919 at Golonog, Polish; relatives abroad: a stepbrother, J. Feldberg, Bne Mitre 1015, Buenos Aires; a sister, the engineer J. Allenberg, Engelstr 5, care of Gafter, Tel Aviv.
• 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 726 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 22, born at Golonog, a student, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 February 1941.
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1123) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Zajdband Dawid, student, born 1919 Golonog, single; 825 Seward Road; Lodz passport of 14 August 1939 extended by the British Legation in Kaunas 1940 and by the Embassy in Tokyo 21 July 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 496)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Dawid Zajbrand, 1947: born about 1920, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco)…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Dawid Zajbrand, born about 1920 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the Marine Lynx. The register's compiled line gives 1919, and the two are 1 year apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1947 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 387, image 214, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.

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