Lejbus Feldberg

Lejbus Feldberg received transit visa no. 554 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 57.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

57

Occupation

Manufacturer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Maria (50)

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Argentina.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Maria — wife, aged 50

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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…
  1407, Filica, 1683, from Lodz
• 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…
  No.36, age 58, b. Pilica, Manufacturer, arr 13.1.1941
• 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 13 Jan 1941 (line 554)