Dyde Ferens

Dyde Ferens received transit visa no. 847 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 38.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

38

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Israel.

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…
  1588, Czestochowa, b.1909, from Czestochowa
• 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…
  No 61; Polish; brother-in-law Joel David Brandys, King Georg 4, Jerusalem
• 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…
  #157, age 39, b. Czestochowa, merchant, arr 2.2
• 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 1382); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Ferens Dydje, timber-trade clerk, born 31 March 1902 Czestochowa, married; 54/17 Chusan Road; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (F-48, 3 December 1941).
• A document held in the archive's files
• Shanghai Ledger, page 173 (left): entries 1379-1386, registered 13 December 1941 on passports issued by the Shanghai consulate itself 2-7 December 1941: Fallman Abraham Hersch (student, b. 10 Dec 1918 Nowy Sacz), Fajgman Dawid (tailor, b…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 173 (right): entries 1379-1386, registered 13 December 1941 on passports issued by the Shanghai consulate itself 2-7 December 1941: Fallman Abraham Hersch (student, b. 10 Dec 1918 Nowy Sacz), Fajgman Dawid (tailor,…