Henryk Polak
Visa no. 668 · Kaunas, 1 August 1940
Henryk Polak received transit visa no. 668 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records student, aged 18.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polnisch Age in 1940 18 Occupation Student The journey Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.
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… 4308, iodz, 1912, from Lodz 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…252; 19; Lodz; student; uncle Herrick 26 Court str Brooklyn NY Open this entry in the full register →
Henryk Polak 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.
The Sugihara Visa Archive · how this was compiled
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