Gerichter Szaja Lejzor

Gerichter Szaja Lejzor received transit visa no. 1367 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 48.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

48

Occupation

Manufacturer

The journey

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

What is known

Listed as entry 1368 on the Sugihara transit-visa registry, a Polish national.

1368 Gerichter Szaja Lejzor

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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 2204, Szaja-Lejzer Gerichter, born 1892 at Częstochowa, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• Mark Halpern correspondence (9 Aug 2026): Netherlands Legation certificate, Tokyo, 18 March 1941 — Minister J.C. Pabst certifies that 74 named persons of Polish nationality "do not need a Netherlands visa in order to proceed to the Nethe…
  Amakusa Maru 74 — Netherlands Legation certificate (Tokyo, 18 Mar 1941), line 72. Cross-referenced by Mark Halpern, researcher (Aug 2026); archive pass concurs. register row reads Gerichter Szaja Lejzor.
• 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 1003); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Gerichter Szaja Lejzer, trader, born 1892 Czestochowa, married; registered 30 April 1941; 865/45 Tongshan Road; passport G-89 (Ser. I 734106) issued by the Shanghai consulate.
• The list of seventy-four — Netherlands Legation, Tokyo, 18 March 1941. On the Legation's letterhead (Gezantschap der Nederlanden), certifying 'that the undermentioned persons all of Polish nationality do not need a Netherlands visa in or…
  Named at position 72 of seventy-four on the Netherlands Legation's certificate of 18 March 1941 — the list of the people who reached Tsuruga on Sugihara's transit visas without a Curaçao endorsement, were refused permission to land, and whose ship was turned back towards Vladivostok. The Legation typed the name as "Gerichter Szaja". A pencilled note beside it gives this register number, which is how the two records are joined.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 24–32 — April 1941 (and a May continuation sheet)
  He left Japan for Shanghai on the Nagasaki Maru, from Nagasaki, 8 April 1941 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of refugees who left Japan for Shanghai, April 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Gerichter Szaja". (Nagasaki Maru, Nagasaki, 8 April 1941, Shanghai.)
• Shanghai Ledger, page 126 (left): entries 1002-1009, registered 29 April - 7 May 1941: Batkiewicz Jozef (cook, Roman Catholic, b. 1897 Omsk, o… — at 150 Route des Soeurs. Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register
• Shanghai Ledger, page 126 (right): entries 1002-1009, registered 29 April - 7 May 1941: Batkiewicz Jozef (cook, Roman Catholic, b. 1897 Omsk,… — at 150 Route des Soeurs. Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register

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