Leon Pomeraniec

Leon Pomeraniec received transit visa no. 692 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records pianist / composer, aged 25.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

25

Occupation

Pianist / Composer

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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 7375, Leon Pomeranc, born 1914 at Pruzany, who had come from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and Prużany agrees with what the archive already holds.
• 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 1914 at Pruzany; relatives abroad: a sister, Berta Kac, 56 East Tremont, Bronx, New York.
• 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…
  Entry 533 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 27, born at Pruzany, a musician, who arrived in Japan on 13 February 1941.
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1192); the register line's repaired reading and the ledger agree exactly — matched on the repaired register name, approved under the owner's review of 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Pomeraniec Leon, PIANIST-COMPOSER (pianista-kompozytor), born 12 October 1914 Pruzana, single; 40 Avenue Bojer?; Tokyo-issued passport of 2 August 1941 (Ser. II 00465) on a British Legation Kaunas certificate of 27 January 1940 (P-5) and a Pruzana identity card.
• 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 692)
• Shanghai Ledger, page 149 (left): entries 1186-1193, registered 30 September - 2 October 1941: the Ganger family of Krakow (Jozef-Jakub, student b. 1922 Vienna; Rosa Gittel b. 1896; Izydor, manufacturer b. 1891 — all at 67 Route Pere Rob…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 149 (right): entries 1186-1193, registered 30 September - 2 October 1941: the Ganger family of Krakow (Jozef-Jakub, student b. 1922 Vienna; Rosa Gittel b. 1896; Izydor, manufacturer b. 1891 — all at 67 Route Pere Ro…

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