Kaplan Symko

Kaplan Symko received transit visa no. 1185 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records mir yeshiva, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Mir Yeshiva

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  Symcha Kaplan, born in 1911, is entered on the 1940 list of Polish Jewish refugees in Vilnius among those who had come from Mir. (JDC Archives, List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940.)
• 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 Simcha Kaplan, born 1911, of Szepietowo, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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