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…
  Entry 114 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 23, born at Kamieniec, a student; relatives abroad: a sister, R. Gwirtsman, care of Halpern, 940 Fox Street, Bronx, New York; a brother, H. Gvirtsman, 555 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
• 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
• 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 Izaak Gwircman, aged 21, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• 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 1764, Icchok Gwircman, born in 1918 at Kamieniec Litewski, who came from Kamieniec Litewski.
• 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 in La-karov ve-la-rachok on 31 March 1946, has Isaak Gwircman, born in 1918 at Kamieniec, a painter, who came in 1941 from Vilnius.

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