Jakob Lejb Rajczyk

Jakob Lejb Rajczyk received transit visa no. 855 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records leathermaker, aged 30.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

30

Occupation

Leathermaker

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 225 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1910 at Makow; relatives abroad: a cousin, Willem Cohen Inc., New Britain, Connecticut.
• 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 548 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 31, born at Makow, a leather maker, who travelled from Kaunas.
• 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 855)
• S.S. Manila Maru, Kobe to South Africa, 29 May 1941 — list of refugee passengers, HICEM meeting half the cost of the passages. JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00053, item 00766. One sheet carries four sailings; this is…
  Listed as "RAJCZYK Jakow" among the refugee passengers who left Kobe to South Africa on the Manila Maru. The compiled register gives Palestine for this line, which is not where this sailing was bound. The identification rests on the name alone and is offered as a possibility, not a finding.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  He left Kobe on the Manila Maru on 29 May 1941, bound for South Africa (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Rajczyk Jakob Lejb". (Manila Maru, Kobe, 29 May 1941.)
• 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 6889, Jakob Lejb Rajczyk, born in 1910 at Makow, who came from Makow.
• 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.

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