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

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.

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 a Henryk Polak at entry 4308, born 1912 at Łódź, who had come from Łódź. It is shown as a lead, not as this person: born 1912 against the register's age of 18, which puts the birth about 1922; Łódź agrees with 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 252 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 19, born at Lodz, a student; relatives abroad: an uncle, Herrick, 26 Court Street, Brooklyn, New York.
Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Henryk Pollak, aged 19, of Łódź, who was in Wilno during the war; his age and his town agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.