Leon Polak

Leon Polak received transit visa no. 836 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 54.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

54

Occupation

Manufacturer

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.

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…
  No 348, 55, Minsk, Manufact., 3.2
• 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 3 Feb 1941 (line 836)
• A document held in the archive's files