Feldman Icko

Feldman Icko received transit visa no. 1527 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 44.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

44

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

son Mendel (17)--student

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Mendel — son, aged 17

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…
  1481, Zytkowice, 1896, from Warszawa
• 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…
  69, 45, Zbytkowiec, merch.; Oskar Feldman 235 West 29 str 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 1267) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943