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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 7237, Jerachmiel Wajngarten, born 1902 at Warszawa, who had come from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and his son Aleksander, born 1934, stands two lines below.
• 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 32 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 33, born at Warsaw, a writer, who arrived in Japan on 11 December 1940.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Ko… — "List of departures for the month of June, 1941" (Jewish Community of Kobe, Migration Office; covering letter p. 12, Kobe, July 1941, HICEM-funded tickets)
  He left Yokohama on the Hikawa Maru on 5 June 1941, bound for Vancouver (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, June 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: Hikawa Maru sheet: "Wajngarten Jerachmiel & wife Bajla & children Joala & Aleksander — 3½". (Hikawa Maru, Yokohama, 5 June 1941, Vancouver.)
• HaMashkif, 18 and 19 September 1941, and HaBoker, 25 September 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  From Japan in September 1941 Jerachmiel Wajngarten sent a greeting to his sister Shoshana Prochownik in Tel Aviv, printed in HaMashkif on 18 September 1941 and in HaBoker on 25 September (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press). The archive attaches it because the messages are from refugees then in Japan, the full name occurs once on the register, and the place and date fit.
• Davar, 19 March 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  By the spring of 1942 Jerachmiel Wajngarten was in Calcutta, from where he sent greetings again to his sister Shoshana Prochownik in Tel Aviv (Davar, 19 March 1942) (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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