Hirszon Josef

Hirszon Josef received transit visa no. 1582 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 9 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 52.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

52

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #1489

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA?.

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 105 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1888 at Kuldiga; relatives abroad: a brother, J. H. Hirshson, 373 Washington Street, Boston; a nephew, S. Fisher, Lusaka, Rhodesia.
• 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 1122); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 3 Feb 1941 (line 1582)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 31 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 31 March 1946, lists Josef Hirszson: born 1888 at Kuldiga, a merchant, arrived in 1941 from Warsaw; the year, the town and the trade agree with the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• 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 Jozef Hirszson: aged 53, born at Kuldiga, a merchant; his age, his birthplace and his trade agree with the register and with the Kobe list of refugees and their relatives. The register gives his arrival in Japan as 25 February 1941, three weeks later than another record of his arrival. Sugihara's typist wrote the name as Hirszson Josef.

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