Znamirowski Simcha

Znamirowski Simcha received transit visa no. 1773 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 15 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 36.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

36

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #1774, child Israel(George) (6)

The journey

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

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…
  6408, Przedborz, 1910, from Lodz
• Mark Halpern correspondence (9 Aug 2026): Netherlands Legation certificate, Tokyo, 18 March 1941 — Minister J.C. Pabst certifies that 74 named persons of Polish nationality "do not need a Netherlands visa in order to proceed to the Nethe…
  Amakusa Maru 74 — Netherlands Legation certificate (Tokyo, 18 Mar 1941), line 22. Cross-referenced by Mark Halpern, researcher (Aug 2026); archive pass concurs.
• 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 1294); the ledger itself holds Symcha Znamirowski twice (entries 1294 and 1336) — matched on the repaired register name, approved under the owner's review of 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Znamirowski Symcha, merchant, born 2 October 1903 Przedborz, married; 573/7 East Seward Road; WIFE LEONIA (b. 10 January 1903 Lodz) and SON IZRAEL (b. 1934) entered in the family column; Tokyo-issued passport of 10 November 1941 — this is the first of the ledger's two Symcha Znamirowski entries. — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Znamirowski Symcha, merchant, born 2 October 1903 Przedborz; 578/7 East Seward Road; passport issued by the Shanghai consulate 10 November 1941 (Z-46, Ser. III 1688).
• JDC Archives, New York — Shanghai Migration Files, box index (AR 33/44, file 00014): the alphabetical index to the JDC's Shanghai emigration case files, 1946-1950 — some 2,640 case files covering about 5,400 persons, each family under on…
  JDC Shanghai Migration Files, case file no. 10385 — an emigration case file opened for the family in Shanghai after the war; the file itself can be requested from the JDC Archives (names closely match; approved under the owner's standing review)
• The list of seventy-four — Netherlands Legation, Tokyo, 18 March 1941. On the Legation's letterhead (Gezantschap der Nederlanden), certifying 'that the undermentioned persons all of Polish nationality do not need a Netherlands visa in or…
  Named at position 22 of seventy-four on the Netherlands Legation's certificate of 18 March 1941 — the list of the people who reached Tsuruga on Sugihara's transit visas without a Curaçao endorsement, were refused permission to land, and whose ship was turned back towards Vladivostok. The Legation typed the name as "Znamirowski Symcha". A pencilled note beside it gives this register number, which is how the two records are joined.