Szaman Zelcer

Szaman Zelcer received transit visa no. 1797 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records technician, aged 34.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

34

Occupation

Technician

The journey

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

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 6371, Szamaj Zelcer, born 1906 at Warszawa, who had come from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 3 Feb 1941 (line 1797)
• 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: "Zelcer Sza[m]aj". (Taiyo Maru, Kobe, 18 July 1941, destination Burma.)

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