Symcha-Binem Szapiro

Symcha-Binem Szapiro received transit visa no. 177 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records mechanic, aged 33.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

33

Occupation

Mechanic

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Burma.

Where this comes from

• 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 321 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 33, born at Warsaw, a mechanic, Polish; relatives abroad: a friend, Adolf Handler, 500 Southern Boulevard, New York.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  He left Kobe on the Taiyo Maru on 18 July 1941, bound for Burma (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Szapiro Symcha Binem". (Taiyo Maru, Kobe, 18 July 1941, destination Burma.)
• 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 5083, Symcha Szapiro, born in 1908, who came from Warszawa.

×