Edward Hechtkopf

Edward Hechtkopf received transit visa no. 499 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records chemical engineer, aged 33.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

33

Occupation

Chemical Engineer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #498

The journey

Reached Shanghai; destination given in the Kitade-Bluman list: Palestine and then South Africa.

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 2256, Edward Hechtkopf, born 1907 at Łódź, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Edward Hechtkopf, aged 32, of Warsaw, who was in Wilno during the war; his age and his city agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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