Jerzy Korngold

Jerzy Korngold received transit visa no. 840 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records student, aged 21.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

21

Occupation

Student

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Australia.

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…
  8074, Opatow, b.1910, Krakow
• 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…
  156, 1919 Krakow; cousin Dr.A.Kohane Tel Aviv, L.Wolf Rechow Izraelis T-A
• 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…
  251, 22, b. Krakow, Student, arr. 24.2, from Vilno
• 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 1067) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Korngold Jerzy, born 15 July 1919 Krakow, single; 912/4 East Seward Road; passport K-133 issued by the Shanghai consulate 11 July 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 24 Feb 1941 (line 840)
• A document held in the archive's files
• Shanghai Ledger, page 134 (left): entries 1066-1073, registered 15-20 July 1941: Isenberg Hirsz (merchant, b. 1911 Krakow, on an Antwerp-consulate passport), Korngold Jerzy (b. 15 Jul 1919 Krakow), Lejzerowicz Aron (factory manager, b. 1…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 134 (right): entries 1066-1073, registered 15-20 July 1941: Isenberg Hirsz (merchant, b. 1911 Krakow, on an Antwerp-consulate passport), Korngold Jerzy (b. 15 Jul 1919 Krakow), Lejzerowicz Aron (factory manager, b.…