Feige Martin
Visa no. 814 · Kaunas, 2 August 1940
Feige Martin received transit visa no. 814 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 41.
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What the register records
- Nationality as recorded
- German
- Age in 1940
- 41
- Occupation
- Merchant
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Argentina.
What is known
Martin Feige (No.814) travelled with his wife Beile (Berta) and their children Rita and Simon from Kaunas — where he had his business — through Tsuruga and Kobe to Buenos Aires in 1941. His daughter Rita's Shoah Foundation testimony (No.34032) indexes him at the flight decision, and again rebuilding a livelihood in Argentina.
Where this comes from
- 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…
The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 41, born at Berlin, a merchant, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 3 January 1941; left for Argentina on 21 January 1941. - Oral history interview with Rita Haim (née Feige) — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 34032. Catalogue: born Dec 9 1926, Berlin (Prussia, Germany); born Berlin 9 Dec 1926; parents Mart… — the interviewee may be living
USC Shoah Foundation VHA interview 34032: Rita Haim (née Feige) — her father Martin — gave a testimony (catalogue: born Dec 9 1926, Berlin (Prussia, Germany)); born Berlin 9 Dec 1926; parents Martin and Berta Feige; Bluman: No.814 Feige Martin, merchant, 41, German - The numbered Sugihara visa list, the page of 2 August 1940 carrying Nos. 795 to 865 (among them No. 805, Szaps Jaskolka), photographed beside a ruler.
- Prof. Ruth Leiserowitz (correspondence, 10 Aug 2026): Feige family, register Nos.813/814 — Beile and Martin Feige travelled with their children Rita and Simon; the family went to ARGENTINA. Rita Feige gave USC Sh… — the register's "Beile"
- Oral history interview with Rita Haim (née Feige) — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 34032. Catalogue: born Dec 9 1926, Berlin (Prussia, Germany); born Berlin 9 Dec 1926; parents Mart… — the interviewee may be living
- Catalogue still for the oral history of Rita Haim (née Feige) — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 34032 (the archive's public catalogue frame, 352x240); links to the testimony at vha.usc.edu/testimony/34032
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