Jehuda Lejb Blum
Visa no. 530 · Kaunas, 31 July 1940
Jehuda Lejb Blum received transit visa no. 530 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records engineer, aged 35.
What the register records
- Nationality as recorded
- Polnisch
- Age in 1940
- 35
- Occupation
- Engineer
- Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
- wife
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.
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 353, Juda Lejb Blum, born 1905, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and the town with what the archive already holds for this line. - 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…
The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1905 at Warszawa, Polish; relatives abroad: brothers, S. Blum, Keren Abraham, Zfanja 9, Jerusalem; a brother-in-law, J. Tenenbaum, Hadar Katabor 30, Haifa. - 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 Feb 1941 (line 530) - 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 Kobe on the Manila Maru on 29 May 1941, bound for South Africa (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Blum Jehuda Leib". (Manila Maru, Kobe, 29 May 1941.)
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