Persic Wadim

Persic Wadim received transit visa no. 634 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records engineer, aged 40.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

40

Occupation

Engineer

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1900 at Moskwa; relatives abroad: a sister, R. Wygodzki, 231 Chestnut, Holyoke, Massachusetts; an uncle, Dr Birstein, 46 Elm Avenue, Larchmont, New York; an uncle, M. Szereszowski, Hotel Bri[stol], Tel Aviv. The register writes the name Persit Wadim: the initial W and the birth year 1900 (the register's age 40) agree, the surname occurs once on the register, and the relatives in the United States fit the compiled next destination.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — the Rakuyo Maru, Yokohama to San Francisco, admitted 21 June 1941 (NARA M1410 roll 370), image 317, line 3: Owadij Wadim Persitz
  The Rakuyo Maru's manifest, Yokohama to San Francisco, admitted at San Francisco on 21 June 1941, line 3, read by the archive in the owner's browser on 3 October 2026: Persitz, Owadij Wadim, 39, single, manager of a factory, a Soviet national, born at Moscow, on quota immigration visa No. 691 issued at Tokyo. The register's Persit Wadim, 40 on the compiled list, is the only Persitz on the register; the Kobe community's relatives list has him born 1900 at Moscow with a sister in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and the manifest agrees on the name, the birthplace and the year within one. On the two lines above him are Artur and Franciszka Zeimer, whose record the archive already holds.
• Find a Grave memorial 79452671 — Vadim Owadij Persitz, born 20 January 1901 at Moscow, died 12 September 1988 at Holyoke, Massachusetts; buried Rodphey Sholom Cemetery, Chicopee, plot D 17 (memorial created by Jeff Kontoff, 2011; names a…
  A Find a Grave memorial, with a photograph of the stone at Rodphey Sholom Cemetery, Chicopee, Massachusetts, gives Vadim Owadij Persitz born 20 January 1901 at Moscow and died 12 September 1988 at Holyoke, Massachusetts, aged 87, and names a sister, Rachel Schwartz. The Kobe list of 1941 placed his sister in Holyoke, and the 1941 manifest gives the same two given names and Moscow, so this is the same man: he lived out his life in the Holyoke area. The memorial notes that other records give his birth as 5 or 20 December 1901.
• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register lists Owadij Wadim Persic, aged 40, born at Moscow, an engineer, who reached Japan on 3 February 1941. Sugihara's ledger lost the first letter of his surname; the register has it in full.

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