Lejzor Pinus

Lejzor Pinus received transit visa no. 773 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records teacher, aged 56.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

56

Occupation

Teacher

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

plus one family member

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  248; 58; Szklow; Teacher; brother I.Pines 591 Euclit Ave Brooklyn NY, sister E.Pines 32 Sholom Alejchem Tel Aviv
• 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 1094) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Pinus Lejzor, TEACHER (nauczyciel), born 10 November 1883 Szklow, married; registered 20 August 1941; 150 Route des Soeurs; Tokyo-issued passport of 31 March 1941 (Ser. II 290667) on a Warsaw identity card of 1928 and a British Legation Kaunas certificate of 30 December 1939 (P-482).
• Tadeusz Romer papers, Library and Archives Canada, MG 31 D 68, vol. 2 (microfilm reel C-10451, frame 1088): 'Lista obywateli polskich ewakuowanych z Dalekiego Wschodu', page 2 — Kamakura Maru, Shanghai 16 August 1942: officials (the Rome…
  Named on the Polish Embassy's list of Polish citizens evacuated from the Far East on the exchange ship s/s Kamakura Maru, Shanghai, 16 August 1942 — one of the 41 'civilian refugees' for whom Ambassador Romer obtained places (evacuee no. 91, 'PINUS Lejzer'); the party sailed with Romer to Lourenco Marques and most went on to England
• Library and Archives Canada, Tadeusz Romer fonds, MG 31 D 68, reel C-10452, frame 627, via Canadiana Heritage — the same list, page 3, entries 23-32 (Lewkowicz, Lifszyc brother and sister, Mann, Marber, Matecka, Merzel, Pikielny, Pinus,…
  On the Polish Embassy's list of 41 Polish refugees (Romer's Shanghai-period papers) (Romer fonds, reel C-10452, frame 627, entry 31): PINUS Lejzer, nauczyciel (teacher), born 1883; passport 109/729/20/III/41, Tokio 31.3.41, do 8.12.43 — Holds no visa. Wishes to go to the USA, where he has a brother and where the ORT society's headquarters is, or to Australia.