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…
  199, Porlgorze, b.1392, from Bielsko
• hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: KLEJN Motel
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 61: KLEJN Motel (file number lost in the scan). Match: register No.725 'Matel Klejn' (repaired: Motel Klejn), and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts