Gliksman Jonas

Gliksman Jonas received transit visa no. 1638 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student, aged 24.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

24

Occupation

Rabbinical Student

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…
  34; 26; b. Wielun; text.spec.; Polish; Joe Shwartz
• 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 1509) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Gliksman Jonas Dawid, textile foreman, born 10 March 1915 Vienna; registered 14 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (G-120, 4 December 1941).
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — 'List of Polish war refugees in China', 242 names: the Polish (Sugihara-stream) group in wartime Shanghai, among them Gedalia Zupnik of the Mir, Chaim Ba…
  USHMM 'List of Polish war refugees in China' (242 names) — the Polish Sugihara-stream group in wartime Shanghai