Margulies Izaak

Margulies Izaak received transit visa no. 1285 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 30.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

30

Occupation

Lawyer

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

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 182 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1910 at Krakow; relatives abroad: Naftali Margulies, New York.
• 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 454 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 31, born at Krakow, a lawyer, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 24 February 1941.
• 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 1487); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Margulies Izak, TRAINEE ADVOCATE (aplikant adwokacki), born 1910 Krakow; 375/5 Avenue du Roi Albert; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (M-124, 2 December 1941), valid to December 1943.
• 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 24 Feb 1941 (line 1285)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Izak Margulies, 1947: born about 1911, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco)…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Izak Margulies, born about 1911 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the General W. H. Gordon. The register's compiled line gives 1910, and the two are 1 year apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1947 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 392, image 446, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• HaBoker, 7 May 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Izaak Margulies, the Kraków lawyer of this line, was counted among the General Zionists in Kobe: a letter sent from Kobe on 10 March 1941 and printed in HaBoker of Tel Aviv on 7 May 1941 names 'Yitzhak Margolis (Kraków)' among the movement's members who had reached Japan from Soviet Lithuania (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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