Lejzor Gasfeld
Visa no. 893 · Kaunas, 3 August 1940
Lejzor Gasfeld received transit visa no. 893 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 41.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polnisch Age in 1940 41 Occupation Clerk Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list plus one other
The journey Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Palestine.
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 7183, Lejzer Hasfeld, born 1899 at Warszawa, who had come from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age. 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 75 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 42, born at Warsaw, a clerk.
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visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
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