Kostelaniec Abram

Kostelaniec Abram received transit visa no. 1706 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records accountant, aged 61.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

61

Occupation

Accountant

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Where this comes from

• The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…
  252, 36, b. Slonim, Clerk, arr. 22.2
• 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 1311) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Kostelaniec Abram Icko, book-keeper, born 24 December 1878 Slonim, married; Tokyo-issued passport of 10 September 1941 (Ser. III 2233) on a British Legation Kaunas certificate (K-591).
• 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 22 Feb 1941 (line 1706)
• Tadeusz Romer papers, Library and Archives Canada, MG 31 D 68, vol. 2 (microfilm reel C-10451, frame 1088): 'Lista obywateli polskich ewakuowanych z Dalekiego Wschodu', page 2 — Kamakura Maru, Shanghai 16 August 1942: officials (the Rome…
  Named on the Polish Embassy's list of Polish citizens evacuated from the Far East on the exchange ship s/s Kamakura Maru, Shanghai, 16 August 1942 — one of the 41 'civilian refugees' for whom Ambassador Romer obtained places (evacuee no. 79, 'KOSTELANIEC Abram Icko'); the party sailed with Romer to Lourenco Marques and most went on to England
• Library and Archives Canada, Tadeusz Romer fonds, MG 31 D 68, reel C-10452, frame 626, via Canadiana Heritage — the same list, page 2, entries 11-22 (the Goldhammer family, Halpern, Hazenberg, Klibanski, Klok and wife, Kostelaniec, Kronz…
  On the Polish Embassy's list of 41 Polish refugees (Romer's Shanghai-period papers) (Romer fonds, reel C-10452, frame 626, entry 19): KOSTELANIEC Abram, księgowy (book-keeper), born 1878; passport 485/729/25/IX/41, Tokio 10.9.41, do 8.12.43 — Holds no visa. Vide poz. 17 as Kłok.