Elelman-Igiel Gustav

Elelman-Igiel Gustav received transit visa no. 1622 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records teacher, aged 23.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

23

Occupation

Teacher

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

child Robert (0), husband of #1623

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Robert — child, aged 0

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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 1178); the names closely match on the repaired reading — matched on the repaired register name, approved under the owner's review of 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Elelman-Igiel Gustaw, TECHNOLOGIST, born 31 January 1917 Warsaw, married; registered 30 September 1941; 455 Rue Lafayette, apt 202, c/o Mikulicki, tel. 87500; Tokyo-issued passport of 21 August 1941 (Ser. II 004150) on British Legation Kaunas certificates of 15 January 1940 (M-2-7) for him and his wife; wife RACHELA b. 28 September 1904 Warsaw (the register's No.1623); son ROBERT WLADYSLAW born 1940 in Wilno — a child born on the road; valid to 22 August 1942.
• 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 24 Feb 1941 (line 1622)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 28 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 28 March 1946, lists Gustav Edelman-Igiel: born 1917 at Warszawa, an engineer, arrived in 1941 from Wilno by way of Siberia; the year agrees with the age the register gives, the name occurs once on the register, and an arrival in Shanghai in 1941 from Lithuania is the Sugihara route itself, so the archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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