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…
  No.105, 1888 Kuldiga; brother J.H.Hirshson 373 Washington str Boston, 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)