Golab Stefan

Golab Stefan received transit visa no. 1788 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 15 August 1940. The register records journalist, aged 30.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

30

Occupation

Journalist

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #1787

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…
  #2166, Warszawa, 1910, from Warszawa
• 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…
  99; age 31; b. Warsaw; journal.
• 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…
  163/224, 10, Warsaw
• 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 1507); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Golab Stefan, MAN OF LETTERS (literat), born 3 May 1910 Warsaw, married — wife FREDA born 27 November 1914 Makow (the register's No.1787); 149 Avenue Haig; registered 14 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (G-111, 3 December 1941), valid to December 1943.