Kac Aron Mordka

Kac Aron Mordka received transit visa no. 628 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 30.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

30

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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…
  6813, b.1909 Lodz, from Jedrzejow
• 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…
  No 123; 1909 Lodz; Polish; uncle I.Foremal, 1865 W Flaglers Miami Florida; cousin Ferenstein 84 Crowninshield Rd. Brooklyn N.Y.
• 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…
  330, 32, b. Lodz, from Vilno
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1290) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Kac Aron Mordka, jeweller, Jewish, born 4 August 1909 Lodz, single; registered 17 November 1941; c/o HICEM, P.O.Box 1745; Tokyo-issued passport of 11 November 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 14 Feb 1941 (line 628)