Witelson Szmul

Witelson Szmul received transit visa no. 1430 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lublin yeshiva?, aged 20.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

20

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Lublin Yeshiva?

The journey

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

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…
  6161; 1920
• 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 1467); the register line's repaired reading and the ledger agree exactly — matched on the repaired register name, approved under the owner's review of 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Witelson Szmul, student, born 1 July 1920 Warsaw, single; 308 Route Cardinal Mercier; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (W-112, 3 December 1941) — with his brother Szlama Zelman (entry 1468, No.1431).