Holcberg Gilel

Holcberg Gilel received transit visa no. 1038 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 45.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

45

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #1036

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  No 283; age 46; born Radomsko; merchant; arr 3.2; from Vilno
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1086); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Holcberg Hilel (Hil), merchant, born 2 December 1895 Radomsko, married — wife SURA-DWOJRA born 27 September 1907 Sobkow (the register's No.1036); 144 Wayside Road 30/32; Katowice passport of 27 July 1935 extended by the Embassy in Tokyo 1 May 1941.