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.

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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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 1588, Dydje Fereus, born 1909 at Częstochowa, who came from Częstochowa; the town, Częstochowa, agrees with what the archive already holds for this line, but the year, 1909, is seven years from the register's compiled age (38 in 1940), and the surname is typed Fereus, so the archive shows the entry as a lead, not as an identification.
• 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…
  Entry 61 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: Polish; relatives abroad: a brother-in-law, Joel David Brandys, King George 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…
  Entry 157 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 39, born at Czestochowa, a merchant, who arrived in Japan on 2 February 1941.
• 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 — the ledger reads: 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).
• 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.
• 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,…

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