Goldberg Szmujlo

Goldberg Szmujlo received transit visa no. 1481 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Where this comes from

• Mark Halpern correspondence (9 Aug 2026): Netherlands Legation certificate, Tokyo, 18 March 1941 — Minister J.C. Pabst certifies that 74 named persons of Polish nationality "do not need a Netherlands visa in order to proceed to the Nethe…
  Amakusa Maru 74 — Netherlands Legation certificate (Tokyo, 18 Mar 1941), line 39. Cross-referenced by Mark Halpern, researcher (Aug 2026); archive pass concurs. register row reads Goldberg Szmujlo.
• 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 1280); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Goldberg Szmujlo Morduch, merchant, born 1890 Pinsk, married; Tokyo-issued passport of 19 April 1941 (Ser. II 290615) on a Kaunas certificate of 17 January 1940.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 28 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed in La-karov ve-la-rachok on 28 March 1946, lists Morduch Szmujlo Goldberg, born 1890 at Pinsk, a merchant, arrived in 1941 from Vilnius (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• 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 7847, Szmul Mordchaj Goldberg, born in 1890 at Pinsk, who came from Pinsk. The Polish consulate's Shanghai ledger has him under the same names, born in 1890 at Pinsk. Sugihara's ledger writes the name Toldberg Szmujlo; the Vilna list writes Goldberg.

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