Cenzor Edward

Cenzor Edward received transit visa no. 898 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. Aged 29 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.

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 799, Edward Cenzor, born 1911 at Wadowice, who came from Kraków; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 Yokohama on the Heian Maru on 27 May 1941, bound for Canada (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Censor Edward". (Heian Maru, Yokohama, 27 May 1941.)
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Edwar Cenzor, a teacher born in 1911, of Kraków, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and the city agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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