Szaja Cukierman
Visa no. 657 · Kaunas, 1 August 1940
Szaja Cukierman received transit visa no. 657 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records writer, aged 27.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polnisch Age in 1940 27 Occupation Writer Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list brother of #635
The journey Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.
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… Nr.876, b.1914 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…#97, age 27, b. Jakow, clerk, arr 2.2, from Vilno 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 2 Feb 1941 (line 657)
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Szaja Cukierman is one of 2,140 people recorded in the surviving register of the transit
visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
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