Zelman Orensztejn

Zelman Orensztejn received transit visa no. 630 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 39.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

39

Occupation

Manufacturer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Sara (33)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Sara — wife, aged 33

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…
  #4182, Warszawa 1902, from 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…
  220, 39, Warsaw, manuf., Polish; brother in law A.Teper c/o Szpigelman 378 Bridge Rd Richmond Melbourne, friend Elbaum c/o Lisen 37 Yehuda Halevi Tel Aviv