Wolanski Szloma

Visa no. 1051 · Kaunas, 5 August 1940

Wolanski Szloma received transit visa no. 1051 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records technician, aged 21.

What the register records

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine and then Canada.

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 6033, Szloma Wolański, born 1919 at Kobryń, who had come from Kobryń; the year agrees with the register's age and Kobryń agrees with the archive's other records.
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 39 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 22, born at Kobryn, a technician, Polish; relatives abroad: uncles, P. Winnicki, Henry Street, New York, and D. Winnicki, 1685 Washington Avenue, Bronx, New York.