Szafran Josek

Szafran Josek received transit visa no. 1493 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records carpenter, aged 24.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

24

Occupation

Carpenter

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #1491

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…
  5501, Gaworowo
• 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 1021); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Szafran Josek, CARPENTER (stolarz), born 15 May 1916 Goworowo, single; 255 Kungping Road, house 17; passport S-196 (Ser. I 734121) issued by the Shanghai consulate 16 May 1941 — brother of Rabbi Icek Szafran (entry 1033, No.1491).