Josef Altminc

Josef Altminc received transit visa no. 157 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 42.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

42

Occupation

Manufacturer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #158, father of #156

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…
  #64, 1898, Wilno
• 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…
  7, 33, Warsaw, manufact.; cousin Kohan 1068 Lincoln Place Brooklyn NY, cousin Heshel Farbstein Jerusalem
• 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 1340); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Altminc Jozef, INDUSTRIALIST, born 8 February 1892 Warsaw, married — wife LAJA DWOJRA born 6 July 1903 Warsaw (the register's No.158) and daughter EWA born 30 March 1927 Warsaw (No.156); 925/1/5 Avenue Joffre; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (A-42, 7 December 1941).