Jehuda Lejb Blum

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…
  353, b.1905, from Warszawa
• 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…
  1905 Warszawa; Polish; brothers S.Blum Keren Abraham Zfanja 9 Jerusalem; 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)