Gotlib Szolim

Gotlib Szolim received transit visa no. 1345 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 1143); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Gotlib Szolim-Manes, born 23 December 1910 Kolno, single; registered 22 September 1941; passport G-103 issued by the Shanghai consulate 19 September 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 2 Feb 1941 (line 1345)
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
• Shanghai Ledger, page 143 (left): entries 1138-1145, registered 22 September 1941 on passports issued by the Shanghai consulate itself 19 September 1941: the Schleier family (Izak, merchant, b. 1886 Suceava; Pepi/Pessel b. 1887 Lwow; Ire…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 143 (right): entries 1138-1145, registered 22 September 1941 on passports issued by the Shanghai consulate itself 19 September 1941: the Schleier family (Izak, merchant, b. 1886 Suceava; Pepi/Pessel b. 1887 Lwow; Ir…