Kaplan Hirsz

Kaplan Hirsz received transit visa no. 1600 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 10 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 39.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

39

Occupation

Merchant

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 1411); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Kaplan Hersz Lejb, industrialist, Jewish, born 12 September 1900 Warsaw, married; registered 13 December 1941; 50 Chusan Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 3 December 1941 — confirms the register's 'Kaplon Hirsz'.