Warszawczyk Wolf

Warszawczyk Wolf received transit visa no. 1387 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records kowno talmudic academy, aged 31.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

31

Occupation

Kowno Talmudic Academy

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Nachama (30)

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Nachama — 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

• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Szmul Warszawczyk, 1946: born about 1909, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francis…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Szmul Warszawczyk, born about 1909 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1909, and the two are 0 years 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 1946 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 384, image 450, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, their lists and sailings, Shanghai 1945–1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  He was one of the fifty rabbinical students holding Canadian visas issued in Shanghai in October 1941 (visa No. 1263/41). He is on the UNRRA list of Polish rabbinical students who left Shanghai for Canada on the General Meigs, a list dated 5 June 1946. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• The JDC's Shanghai migration files, 1946–1950 — the index of emigrants from Shanghai (JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 14)
  Szmul Warszawczyk is in the JDC's index of its Shanghai emigration cases with his wife Nachama, filed among those leaving for Canada or England. (JDC Archives, New York, AR 33/44, the Shanghai migration index)
• 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…
  Szmul Warszawczyk registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai in September 1941, a rabbi born on 9 July 1909, with his wife Nachama, born at Horodyszcze in 1909. (Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archives, the Shanghai consulate's register, digitised by the Library of Congress.)
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Samuel Rabin Warsawczyk, born in 1909, married to Nechama, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and his wife's name agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register lists Szmul Warszawczyk, aged 32, born at Siedlce, a rabbi, who reached Japan from Kovno. Sugihara's ledger writes his given name Wolf; the register, like the compilers, has Szmul.
• 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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad has Szmul Warszawczyk, born in 1909 at Mordy, with his wife Nachama, born in 1909. Sugihara's ledger writes his given name Wolf; the list, like the compilers, has Szmul.
• 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 6300, Warszawczyk Szmul, born 1909 at Mordy, who came from Mordy, with Warszawaczyk Nechama, born 1909, beside him; the year agrees with the age the register gives, and the town and his wife with what the archive already holds.

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