Wolf Wladyslaw Klejman
Visa no. 501 · Kaunas, 31 July 1940
Wolf Wladyslaw Klejman received transit visa no. 501 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records engineer, aged 38.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polnisch Age in 1940 38 Occupation Engineer Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list brother of #447, #448
The journey Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.
Where this comes from 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 13 Jan 1941 (line 501) JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321 He left Yokohama on the President Pierce on 12 May 1941, bound for the USA (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "(12th, "Pres. Pierce") Kleiman Naftali, ″ Wolf, ″ Mojzesz — Polish — U.S.A.". (President Pierce, Yokohama, 12 May 1941.) 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…The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register lists Wolf Klejman, aged 39, born at Warsaw, a manufacturer, who reached Japan on 13 January 1941. Sugihara's ledger lost the first letter of both his given names; the register has Wolf in full.
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Wolf Wladyslaw Klejman is one of 2,140 people recorded in the surviving register of the transit
visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
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