Morduch Itinson

Morduch Itinson received transit visa no. 969 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 48.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

48

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother IL lived in Curacao

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Burma.

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 116 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1892 at Orsza; relatives abroad: a brother-in-law, Rubinek, Herrenstaat 7, Willemstadt, Curaçao.
• 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 223 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 49, born at Orsza, a merchant, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 February 1941.
• 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 25 Feb 1941 (line 969)
• 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 I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  He left Kobe on the Taiyo Maru on 18 July 1941, bound for Burma (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Itinson Morduch". (Taiyo Maru, Kobe, 18 July 1941, destination Burma.)

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