Gutgold Aron
Visa no. 1769 · Kaunas, 14 August 1940
Gutgold Aron received transit visa no. 1769 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 37.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polnisch Age in 1940 37 Occupation Lawyer
The journey Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Australia.
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 1832, Aron Gutgold, born 1903 at Warszawa, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age. 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 267 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 38, born at Warsaw, a lawyer, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 3 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 1325) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Gutgold Aron, born 1903 Warsaw, married; 352 Ward Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 24 November 1941.
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visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
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