Sprei Salomon

Sprei Salomon received transit visa no. 1289 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records physician, aged 32.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

32

Occupation

Physician

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Mexico.

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 249 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1908 at Nowy Sacz; relatives abroad: a sister, Lola Fefer, Mexico City.
• 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 619 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 33, born at Nowy Sacz, a physician, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 24 February 1941.
• 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 1289)
• "California, Los Angeles, Passenger Lists, 1907-1948", FamilySearch — index entry for Salomon Sprei, 1941: born about 1908, Nowy Saoz, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1764 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at Los An…
  FamilySearch's index of the Los Angeles passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Salomon Sprei, born about 1908 in Nowy Saoz, Poland, arriving at Los Angeles in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1908, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Los Angeles in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• United States, Border Crossings from Mexico to United States, 1903-1957 — FamilySearch, index entries read 24 October 2026
  FamilySearch's index of the border crossings from Mexico into the United States, read on 24 October 2026, has Salomon Sprei, aged 37, born about 1909 at Nowy Sacz, crossing into Texas on 30 April 1946. The register has Salomon Sprei, a physician born in 1908 at Nowy Sacz, whose recorded next destination after Japan was Mexico, where his sister lived. The surname occurs once on the register and the birth year and the town agree, so the entry is taken as this man.

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