Horowitz Samuel

Horowitz Samuel received transit visa no. 1652 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student, aged 27.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

27

Occupation

Rabbinical Student

The journey

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

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 1400); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Horowitz Samuel, student, born 9 June 1913 Krakow; 921/2 Avenue Joffre; Tokyo-issued passport of 4 December 1941.
• Oral history interview with Samuel Horowitz — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 27750. Catalogue: born Jun 9 1913, Kraków (Kraków, Poland); born Krakow 9 Jun 1913; Bluman: No.1652 Horowitz Samuel, rabbinical student,…
  USC Shoah Foundation VHA interview 27750: Samuel Horowitz — the interviewee himself — gave a testimony (catalogue: born Jun 9 1913, Kraków (Kraków, Poland)); born Krakow 9 Jun 1913; Bluman: No.1652 Horowitz Samuel, rabbinical student, 27