Kalisz Simon

Kalisz Simon received transit visa no. 1588 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 10 August 1940. The register records rabbibical student, aged 22.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

22

Occupation

Rabbibical Student

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 1519); the ledger reads: Kalisz Szymon, RABBI, born 15 October 1917 Warsaw, single; 35 Moulmein Road; registered 14 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (K-163, 4 December 1941). The ledger's man, born in 1917, is the son: the United Board of Rabbis' list of 1945 carries father Szymon (born 1883) and son Simon (born 1917) on separate lines, so this entry belongs to the son's register line.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Szymon Kalisz, 1946: born about 1917, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco).…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Szymon Kalisz, born about 1917 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1918, and the two are 1 year apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1946 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 385, image 485, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, Mizrachi members list and the United Board of Rabbis' birth-data pages, Shanghai 1945–46 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  The United Board of Rabbis and Rabbinical Colleges in Shanghai listed him among its members after the war, born in 1917 in Warsaw. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• 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 2998, Szymon Kalisz, born 1917; the year agrees with the register's compiled age for this line, the son, where his father Szymon (No. 607) was born in 1883.
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Szymon Kalisz, born in 1917, a rabbi of Warsaw, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and the town agree with this register line, and the year sets him apart from the older Szymon Kalisz on the register. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• 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)
  A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: 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 a Szymon Kalisz: born 1917 at Warsaw, a rabbi, arrived in 1941 from Lithuania; the year agrees with the register's compiled age for this line (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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