Oszer Gorfajn

Oszer Gorfajn received transit visa no. 578 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records painter, aged 22.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

22

Occupation

Painter

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

Where this comes from

• 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 578)
• S.S. Manila Maru, Kobe to South Africa, 29 May 1941 — list of refugee passengers, HICEM meeting half the cost of the passages. JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00053, item 00766. One sheet carries four sailings; this is…
  Listed as "GORFAJN Oszer" among the refugee passengers who left Kobe to South Africa on the Manila Maru. The compiled register gives Palestine for this line, which is not where this sailing was bound. The identification rests on the name alone and is offered as a possibility, not a finding.