Ojzer Galler

Ojzer Galler received transit visa no. 514 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records clerk, aged 32.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

32

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for New Zealand.

Where this comes from

• 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 75 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1907 at Oleszyce; relatives abroad: an uncle, M. Galler, Migdal, Tiberias, Palestine; an aunt, H. Rosner, 337 or 338 Vernon Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
• 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 153 (also numbered 188) of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 34, born at Oleszyce, a clerk.
• "List of persons arriving on route to New Zealand" — the arrival roster for the sailing from Japan, September 1941: 33 typed names, from Dr George Bluman’s own marked-up cop… — September 1941, not July; he had misread his own handwriting.
  Named on the list of persons arriving on route to New Zealand, sailing from Japan in 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 514)

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