Gestel Ichok

Visa no. 1417 · Kaunas, 7 August 1940

Gestel Ichok received transit visa no. 1417 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940.

Documents

Document — Gestel Ichok — Shanghai Ledger, page 175 (left): entries 1395-1402, registered 13 December 1941 on Tokyo-issued passports of 2-5 December 1941: Gelbron Boruch Mojsze (office clerk, b. 6 Mar 1903 Warsaw), Gasner Hirsch (merchant, b. 15 Jan 1899 Krzeszow), Goldgamer Froim (office clerk, b. 10 Jun 1910 Brzesc), Gestel Icchok-Josef (glove-maker, b. 20 Sep 1901 Warsaw), GOLDSZTEJN Jan (student, b. 26 Jul 1920 Warsaw), Horowitz Samuel (student, b. 9 Jun 1913 Krakow), Hochlerer Szloma Nechemia (b. 18 Mar 1920 Wojslawice, at 35 Moulmein Road), Bezprozwanny Fajwel (b. 2 Jan 1920 Milejczyce). Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register

Document — Gestel Ichok — Shanghai Ledger, page 175 (right): entries 1395-1402, registered 13 December 1941 on Tokyo-issued passports of 2-5 December 1941: Gelbron Boruch Mojsze (office clerk, b. 6 Mar 1903 Warsaw), Gasner Hirsch (merchant, b. 15 Jan 1899 Krzeszow), Goldgamer Froim (office clerk, b. 10 Jun 1910 Brzesc), Gestel Icchok-Josef (glove-maker, b. 20 Sep 1901 Warsaw), GOLDSZTEJN Jan (student, b. 26 Jul 1920 Warsaw), Horowitz Samuel (student, b. 9 Jun 1913 Krakow), Hochlerer Szloma Nechemia (b. 18 Mar 1920 Wojslawice, at 35 Moulmein Road), Bezprozwanny Fajwel (b. 2 Jan 1920 Milejczyce). Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded: Polnisch

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 1398); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Gestel Icchok-Josef, glove-maker, born 20 September 1901 Warsaw, married; 800/26 East Seward Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 3 December 1941 — the ledger's GESTEL confirms the repaired register reading.
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 1633, Gestel Icchak Józef, born 1901 at Warsaw, who came from Warsaw; the year and the town agree with what the archive already holds.
Shanghai Ledger, page 175 (left): entries 1395-1402, registered 13 December 1941 on Tokyo-issued passports of 2-5 December 1941: Gelbron Boruch Mojsze (office clerk, b. 6 Mar 1903 Warsaw), Gasner Hirsch (merchant, b. 15 Jan 1899 Krzeszow…
Shanghai Ledger, page 175 (right): entries 1395-1402, registered 13 December 1941 on Tokyo-issued passports of 2-5 December 1941: Gelbron Boruch Mojsze (office clerk, b. 6 Mar 1903 Warsaw), Gasner Hirsch (merchant, b. 15 Jan 1899 Krzeszo…

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