Witelson Szloma

Witelson Szloma received transit visa no. 1431 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lublin yeshiva?, aged 22.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

22

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…
  #6109, b.1924, Praga wara
• 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 1468); the names closely match on the repaired reading — matched on the repaired register name, approved under the owner's review of 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Witelson Szlama Zelman, born 20 June 1918; 308 Route Cardinal Mercier; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (W-111, 3 December 1941) — with his brother Szmul (entry 1467, No.1430).