Lejzer Ptak

Lejzer Ptak received transit visa no. 953 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 65.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

65

Occupation

Lawyer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Perla (60)

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Perla — wife, aged 60

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

• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Lejzor-Giercko Ptak, 1940: born about 1875, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franc…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Lejzor-Giercko Ptak, born about 1875 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1875, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1940 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS President Coolidge, sailing from Kobe 9 November 1940, arrived San Francisco November 1940 (NARA, passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco, M1410, film 366; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  The President Coolidge sailed from Kobe on 9 November 1940, took shore leave at Honolulu on the 17th and landed at San Francisco in the following week; its manifest, seven names on the page, has Lejzor-Gierszko Ptak, aged 65, married, a lawyer, Polish, born at Białystok, last residence Vilnius, on a quota immigration visa, No. 2586, issued at Tokyo on 28 October 1940, with his wife Perla, 60, born at Raczki, on the line below him on the next visa number. The register gives his age as 65. (The sheet is in the National Archives' passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco, microfilm M1410; the archive read FamilySearch's copy.)
• 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 Lejzer Hersz Ptak, born 1875, of Augustów, married to Perla, who was in Wilno during the war; his year, his second name and his wife's name agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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