Motel Klejn

Motel Klejn received transit visa no. 725 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records student, aged 26.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

26

Occupation

Student

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

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 a Motel Klein at entry 2899, born 1893 or 1898 at Podgórze, who had come from Bielsko. It is shown as a lead, not as this person: spelled Klein; the year, 1893 or 1898, is far from the register's age of 26, and two men named Motel Klejn are on the register (Nos. 725 and 793).

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