Fuks Szmul

Fuks Szmul received transit visa no. 1747 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lubavitsch yeshiva, aged 18.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

18

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Lubavitsch Yeshiva

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 25 Jan 1941 (line 1747)
• 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 1377) — found on reading the ledger page itself — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Fuks Szmujla Hirsz (the register's 'Szmul Fuks'), born 2 October 1921; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (F-54/2, 5 December 1941) — found on reading the page; tentative. — owner reviewed 23 Aug 2026, held