Gudes Simon

Gudes Simon received transit visa no. 1538 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 8 August 1940. The register records farmer, aged 59.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

59

Occupation

Farmer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

father of #1537, uncle of #455

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  Entry 331 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 60, a farmer; relatives abroad: a son, Sol. Gudes, Burlington, North Carolina.
• FamilySearch — North Carolina First Draft Registration Cards, 1940–45 (Sholem Gudes, born 15 March 1910 at Mikielewszczyzna, Poland, of Burlington, N.C.) and the US census of 14 April 1950, Burlington, Alamance County (Sol Gudes, 38, nep…
  The son named on the Kobe list as his relative abroad, 'Sol Gudes, Burlington, North Carolina', is found there: a draft card of 1940 for Sholem Gudes, born 15 March 1910 at Mikielewszczyzna near Grodno, of Burlington, with an uncle A. B. E. Gudes as next of kin, and the census of April 1950, in which Sol Gudes, 38, born in Poland, is the nephew of Abraham Gudes, 60, manager of a dry-cleaning plant in Burlington. Neither record names his father, so this is context for the Kobe line and not a record of Szymiel (Simon) Gudes himself.
• HaBoker, HaTzofe, Omer and Haaretz, 19 September 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: a Gudes — Szymel in one printing, Shmuel in another — is on the list of Polish refugees in Bombay bound for Palestine printed by the Tel Aviv papers on 19 September 1941, and on the India roll of February 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press). The given name differs between the printings, so it is shown as a lead for Simon Gudes.
• 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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 7767, Szejndel Gudes, born in 1881, who came from Mikelewczyzna. His son Hirsz is the entry before.

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