Samuel Kurlandski

Samuel Kurlandski received transit visa no. 561 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records chemist, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Chemist

The journey

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

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…
  #3231, b.1911 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…
  Warszawa; Polish; brother Monusz Kurlandski, 553 Fifth Av., Room 907, c/o B.J.Weinberg
• 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…
  #398, 30, b. Warsaw, Clerk, arr 2.2, from Kovno