J. Szapiro

J. Szapiro received transit visa no. 152 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 28.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

28

Occupation

Lawyer

The journey

Reached Shanghai.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  Jerzy Szapiro, an articled lawyer born in Warsaw in 1912, registered with the Polish Consulate General in Shanghai on 10 February 1941. (Register of Polish citizens, Polish Consulate General in Shanghai; Library of Congress.)
• The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register lists Jerzy Szapiro, aged 28, born at Warsaw, a lawyer, who reached Japan on 14 December 1940 and left for Shanghai on 30 January 1941.

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