Wiktor Rajzman

Wiktor Rajzman received transit visa no. 783 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records engineer, aged 26.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

26

Occupation

Engineer

The journey

Reached Japan; 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…
  #4036; Kolce; 1920
• 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…
  1914 Kielce; cousin Hausen Buchner 12545 Gratiet Detroit Mich; cousin Prof.Fodor Hebrew University Jerusalem
• 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…
  no.550, age 27, b. Kielce, Ing., arr 13.2 from Vilno
• hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Wiktor Rajzman, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Wiktor Rajzman, 1941. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.783 'iktor ajzman' records age 26; the manifest gives born 1914, arriving 1941.
• 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 783)