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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 4182, Zelman Orlensztejn, born 1902 at Warsaw, who had come from Warsaw; the year agrees with the register's age and Warsaw agrees with the archive's other records.
• 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…
  Entry 220 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 39, born at Warsaw, a manufacturer, Polish; relatives abroad: a brother-in-law, A. Teper, care of Szpigelman, 378 Bridge Road, Richmond, Melbourne; a friend, Elbaum, care of Lisen, 37 Yehuda Halevi, Tel Aviv.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  He left Kobe on the Kasima Maru on 6 July 1941, bound for Australia (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Grensztejn Zolman, ″ Sara". (Kasima Maru, Kobe, 6 July 1941, destination Australia.)

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