Michal Wejland

Michal Wejland received transit visa no. 861 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 51.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

51

Occupation

Manufacturer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Estera (52), child Marceli (18)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Estera — wife, aged 52
• Marceli — child, aged 18

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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…
  6130; Zgirz; 1859
• 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…
  #27, age 52, Zgierz, manuf., Polish; cousin H.Hershfield State Normal Place Jersey City New Jersey
• A document held in the archive's files
• Prof. Andrew Jakubowicz (University of Technology Sydney), email of 11 August 2026 to the archive, introduced by Arlette Liwer-Stuip — four answers: (1) Josef Kamieniecki's Curaçao sheet may be used, authorised by his son Michael Kamm; J…