Szafran Icek

Szafran Icek received transit visa no. 1491 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbi - lublin yeshiva, aged 25.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

25

Occupation

Rabbi - Lublin Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Basia (21)--teacher beth jacob, brother of #1493

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Basia — wife, aged 21

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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…
  5563, Gaworowo, b.1914, Gaworowo
• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  317; 27; Goworowo; Rabbi; uncle Ben Safran 125 Brighton 11 str Brooklyn NY, B.Brooks 1457-46 str Brooklyn NY
• 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 1033); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Szafran Icek, RABBI, born 14 May 1914 Goworowo, single; 225/7 Kungping Road; passport S-195 issued by the Shanghai consulate 21 May 1941 — brother of Josek (entry 1021, No.1493).
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — 'List of Polish war refugees in China', 242 names: the Polish (Sugihara-stream) group in wartime Shanghai, among them Gedalia Zupnik of the Mir, Chaim Ba…
  USHMM 'List of Polish war refugees in China' (242 names); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026