Szoel Tyk

Szoel Tyk received transit visa no. 1649 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records dentist, aged 22.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

22

Occupation

Dentist

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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 1089); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Tyk Szoel, born 27 November 1917 Nowe Miasto near Plonsk, single; registered 16 August 1941; 609/593 East Seward Road, flat 3; passport T-28 issued by the Shanghai consulate 13 August 1941.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  He left Japan for Shanghai on the Nagasaki Maru, sailing from Kobe on 16 July 1941 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of persons who left Japan for Shanghai, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Tyk Szoel — Polish (Nagasaki Maru, 16th)". (Nagasaki Maru, Kobe, 16 July 1941, destination Shanghai.)
• 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 Szoel Tyk, born in 1917, of Nowe Miasto, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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