Hechtkopf Chaim Dawid

Hechtkopf Chaim Dawid received transit visa no. 1373 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 30.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

30

Occupation

Manufacturer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Szjandla (30)

The journey

Reached Shanghai; destination given in the Kitade-Bluman list: USA.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Szjandla — wife, aged 30

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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 1282); the register line's repaired reading and the ledger agree exactly — matched on the repaired register name, approved under the owner's review of 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Hechtkopf Chaim Dawid, commercial agent, born 10 September 1909 Warsaw, married — wife SZAJNDLA born 27 June 1910 Warsaw; 599/36 Tongshan Road; registered 12 November 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate 4 November 1941 (H-58).
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Chaim Dawid Hechtkope, 1947: born about 1909, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Fra…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Chaim Dawid Hechtkope, born about 1909 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1910, and the two are 1 year apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1947 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 394, image 586, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 31 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 31 March 1946, lists Chaim-David Hechtkopf: born 1909 at Warsaw, an employee, arrived in 1941 from Vilnius; the year agrees with the age the register gives, the name occurs once on the register, and an arrival in Shanghai in 1941 from Lithuania is the Sugihara route itself, so the archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• 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 7792, Chaim Hechtkopf, born in 1909 at Warszawa, who came from Warszawa. Szajndla Hechtkopf, born in 1910, is the next entry.

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