Lejb Tod

Lejb Tod received transit visa no. 792 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 36.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

36

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for South Africa.

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 339 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 37, born at Vilnius (Vilno), a clerk; relatives abroad: a cousin, Ch. Jerusalimski, Vincente Lopez 1735, Buenos Aires.
• 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 1098); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Tod Lejb, born 30 April 1904 Wilno, single; registered 23 August 1941; 220 Kungping Road, flat 4; passport T-27 (Ser. I 734159) issued by the Shanghai consulate 13 August 1941.
• 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. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  He left Japan for Shanghai on the Shanghai Maru, sailing from Kobe on 2 July 1941 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of persons who left Japan for Shanghai, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Tod Lajb — Polish — Kobe". (Shanghai Maru, Kobe, 2 July 1941, destination Shanghai.)
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Lejb Tod, born 1904, of Warsaw, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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