Koppel Szloma
Visa no. 1515 · Kaunas, 7 August 1940
Koppel Szloma received transit visa no. 1515 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 22.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polnisch Age in 1940 22 Occupation Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva
The journey Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.
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… 6586, b.1917 Zdunska Wola, from Zdunska Wola 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…146, 24, Zdunska Wola, yeshiva, Polish; uncle A.Galewski 119 West 25 New York 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 1413); 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: Koppel Szlama, student, born 1 September 1917 Zdunska Wola; 35 Moulmein Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 3 December 1941.
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Koppel Szloma is one of 2,140 people recorded in the surviving register of the transit
visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
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