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…
  Entry 248 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 58, born at Szklow, a teacher; relatives abroad: a brother, I. Pines, 591 Euclit Avenue, Brooklyn, New York; a 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 — the ledger reads: 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… — cited by link only (Canadiana Heritage); frame image not republished
  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.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 24–32 — April 1941 (and a May continuation sheet)
  He left Japan for Shanghai on the Shanghai Maru, from Nagasaki, late April 1941 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of refugees who left Japan for Shanghai, April 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Pinus Lejser — Polish — Nagasaki (Shanghai Maru)". (Shanghai Maru, Nagasaki, late April 1941, Shanghai.)

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