Jerachmiel Wajngarten

Jerachmiel Wajngarten received transit visa no. 626 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records writer, aged 37.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

37

Occupation

Writer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #625, children (Joula (13), Aleksander (7))

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Joula — child, aged 13
• Aleksander — child, aged 7

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…
  7237; Warszawa; b.1902; from Warszawa
• 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…
  #32, 33, b. Warsaw, Writer, arr 11.12.