Sauberman Awadja

Sauberman Awadja received transit visa no. 1406 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records accountant, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Accountant

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  5323, Warszawa 1911, from Warszawa
• 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 1462); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Sauberman Awadja, book-keeper, born 3 May 1911 Warsaw; 35 Moulmein Road; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (S-238, 6 December 1941).