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…
  6353, Koloaow, 1919, from Mlyc
• 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…
  299, 1919 Golonog, Polish; step brother J.Feldberg Bne Mitre 1015 Buenos Aires, sister ing.J.Allenberg Engelstr 5 c/o 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…
  no.726, age 22, Golonog, student, arr 25.2 Vilno
• 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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)