Greetings! I do not know how old this is, but my mother found this picture of her grandfather’s passport. She asked me to get help finding his name and the town he is from. And any other info, birthdate etc that can be found.
I can use google translate for the printed text, but the written script wouldn’t be possible that way. Are there any resources that any of you might have that could help with this? Or can anyone here assist?
Thank you in advance!
Name Janzelas Bordovskis (Bardovskis?)
Town: Kaunas
Birth date: 1894 Sep 7
He was a tailor
Jewish
Also for personal marks part:
Height: 1 meter 74 centimeters
Hair: black
Eyes: dark
Face: round
Under the photo, there is signature (parašas) and it says ‘nemoka’ ([he] can’t [write]) I presume
The quality of this is amazing.. So your great grandfather was a litvak (lithuanian jewish) tailor from Kaunas. I guess he managed to escape before nazis came.
Oh and I see someone translated name, birth date , nationality and his trade, but there are also his special features:
Height: 174 cm ( 5’7″)
Hair: Black
Face: Round.
You can also see his signature on bottom left side of this document, top right number is for pasport number; and top left- queue number (serial number)
The stamp says: *Kauno miesto milicijos valdyba* that would translate to ” The board of militia of Kaunas city”
Edit: Actualy it seems that the number I referred as serial number, more likely to be something like ID number. As it’s repeated on the top part of photo- 10777
Some letters are hard to understand but I think that his name was Jankelas Bardovskis. It is harder to decipher what letter is in the name between letters “N” and “E” but if you look at the name and surname “K” it is written the same way. Place of birth – Kaunas. Profession – tailor. Nationality – Jew.
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Greetings! I do not know how old this is, but my mother found this picture of her grandfather’s passport. She asked me to get help finding his name and the town he is from. And any other info, birthdate etc that can be found.
I can use google translate for the printed text, but the written script wouldn’t be possible that way. Are there any resources that any of you might have that could help with this? Or can anyone here assist?
Thank you in advance!
Name Janzelas Bordovskis (Bardovskis?)
Town: Kaunas
Birth date: 1894 Sep 7
He was a tailor
Jewish
Also for personal marks part:
Height: 1 meter 74 centimeters
Hair: black
Eyes: dark
Face: round
leaked
Sooo, i did something here, hope you like it ^^
[https://imgur.com/a/G7ZX5Gh](https://imgur.com/a/G7ZX5Gh)
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Edit: to be fair, I don’t know if I translated his nationality correctly, could be “Jewish” there
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Edit 2: Fixed it, https://imgur.com/a/HU7YWCW
Stamp from Kauno miestas Milicijos valdyba (Kaunas city Police department)
Profession (actually says: darbas = works as): tailor
Thank you all so very much!! My cousin actually just sent me the second page of it. I hate to ask again, but can anyone help with what it says?
https://imgur.com/a/4OceC2i
Here’s a link to the transcription of this document on Ancestry. https://imgur.com/a/27Ss03L
Under the photo, there is signature (parašas) and it says ‘nemoka’ ([he] can’t [write]) I presume
The quality of this is amazing.. So your great grandfather was a litvak (lithuanian jewish) tailor from Kaunas. I guess he managed to escape before nazis came.
Oh and I see someone translated name, birth date , nationality and his trade, but there are also his special features:
Height: 174 cm ( 5’7″)
Hair: Black
Face: Round.
You can also see his signature on bottom left side of this document, top right number is for pasport number; and top left- queue number (serial number)
The stamp says: *Kauno miesto milicijos valdyba* that would translate to ” The board of militia of Kaunas city”
Edit: Actualy it seems that the number I referred as serial number, more likely to be something like ID number. As it’s repeated on the top part of photo- 10777
Some letters are hard to understand but I think that his name was Jankelas Bardovskis. It is harder to decipher what letter is in the name between letters “N” and “E” but if you look at the name and surname “K” it is written the same way. Place of birth – Kaunas. Profession – tailor. Nationality – Jew.