Goldsztajn Jan

Goldsztajn Jan received transit visa no. 1730 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. The register records student, aged 20.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

20

Occupation

Student

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Where this comes from

• List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 1829, Jan Goldsztejn, born 1920 at Warszawa, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and the town with what the archive already holds for this line.
• 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…
  Entry 86 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1920 at Warszawa, Polish; relatives abroad: a mother, Lucja Goldstein, 3067 Santa Avenue, Buenos Aires.
• 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…
  Entry 231 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 21, born at Warsaw, a student, who arrived in Japan on 14 February 1941.
• 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 1399); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Goldsztejn Jan, STUDENT, born 26 July 1920 Warsaw, single; registered 13 December 1941; 912/8 East Seward Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 3 December 1941. A 21-year-old student — the other Goldsztejn of the register, plainly not Stefan Golston (b. 1904), whose own road ran to Seattle.
• 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 14 Feb 1941 (line 1730)
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR33-44 fi… — “List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai and Harbin in the month of May 1941”, compiled by the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
  Named in the Kobe committee's list of persons who left Japan for Shanghai and Harbin in the month of May 1941 (JDC Archives). Jan Goldsztajn sailed from Kobe for Shanghai on 24 May 1941 aboard the Kamakura Maru, entered here as 'Golanstein'. A student of twenty-one from Warsaw who reached Japan on 14 February 1941, and who registered with the Polish consulate at Shanghai.
• 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 Jan Goldsztejn: born 1920 at Warsaw, a student, arrived in 1941 from Warsaw by way of Siberia; the year and the town agree with the 1940 Vilna refugee list, the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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