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

• 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…
  7301; Brody; b.1914; from Brody
• 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…
  182, 1910 Krakow; 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…
  #454, 31, b. Krakow, Lawyer, arr 24.2, 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 1487); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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)