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; registered in Kobe for 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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).