Feige Martin

Feige Martin received transit visa no. 814 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 41.

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…
  age 41, b. Berlin, Merchant, from Kaunas, arr 3.1, left Argentina 21.1.1941
• 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 Martin and Berta Feige; Bluman: No.8…
  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
• A document held in the archive's files
• 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 Shoah Foundation Visual His…
• 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