Szlomowicz Abram

Szlomowicz Abram received transit visa no. 1325 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 20.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

20

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #1334

The journey

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

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…
  7580; 1920; Mir
• 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…
  260, 1920 Wolkowysk
• hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: SZLOMOWICZ Abram
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 168: SZLOMOWICZ Abram, file no. 7811. Match: register No.1325 'zlomowicz Abram' (repaired: Szlomowicz Abram), and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts
• 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 1149); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Szlomowicz Abram, born 1920 Wolkowysk, single; registered 22 September 1941 with his brother Efroim (entry 1148, student, b. 1920 Wolkowysk); Tokyo-issued passport of 15 September 1941. NOTE: the ledger has one Abram and one Efroim; the register's two Abram Szlomowicz rows (1325, 1334) may be the two brothers under one misread name.
• JDC Archives, New York — Shanghai Migration Files, box index (AR 33/44, file 00014): the alphabetical index to the JDC's Shanghai emigration case files, 1946-1950 — some 2,640 case files covering about 5,400 persons, each family under on…
  JDC Shanghai Migration Files, case file no. 7811 — an emigration case file opened for the family in Shanghai after the war; the file itself can be requested from the JDC Archives
• 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 1325)