Gwircman Izaak

Gwircman Izaak received transit visa no. 1388 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records painter, aged 21.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

21

Occupation

Painter

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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…
  114, 23, Kamieniec, student; sister R.Gwirtsman 940 Fox Str Bronx NY c/o Halpern, brother H.Gvirtsman 555 Nostrand Ave Brooklyn NY
• 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 1504); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026