Klinger Izrael

Klinger Izrael received transit visa no. 1415 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 21.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

21

Occupation

Clerk

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #1568

The journey

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

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 1410) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Klinger Izrael Fajwel, office clerk, born 25 January 1919 Stawiszyn; 805/19 East Seward Road with his brother Moszek (entry 1408); Tokyo-issued passport of 5 December 1941 — found on reading the page.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 25 Feb 1941 (line 1415)