Mojzesz Ber Oldak

Mojzesz Ber Oldak received transit visa no. 540 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 35.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

35

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Israel.

Where this comes from

• 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 128 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 36, born at Warsaw, a merchant, who arrived in Japan on 24 January 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 24 Jan 1941 (line 540)
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1010) — found on reading the ledger page itself — the ledger reads: Oldak Mojzesz-Ber, merchant, born 7 June 1905 Warsaw, married; registered 8 May 1941; 599 Tongshan Road, house 88; passport O-23 (Ser. I 734112) issued by the Shanghai consulate 6 May 1941 — found on reading the page.
• 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 Mojzesz Oldak, aged 35, 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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