Golab Stefan
Visa no. 1788 · Kaunas, 15 August 1940
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…
The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 2166, Stefan Gołąb, born 1910 at Warszawa, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age. - 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 99 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 31, born at Warsaw, a journalist. - 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 163 (also numbered 224) of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 10, born at 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 — the ledger reads: 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.
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