Kuperman Icchok
Visa no. 1885 · Kaunas, 17 August 1940
Kuperman Icchok received transit visa no. 1885 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lublin yeshiva?, aged 23.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polnisch Age in 1940 23 Occupation Rabbinical Student - Lublin Yeshiva?
The journey Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
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… #2701, Sobolewo, b.1917, Sobolewo 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 1416) — found on reading the ledger page itself — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Kuperman Icek, student, born 24 February 1917 Sobolew; registered 13 December 1941; Tokyo-issued passport of 3 December 1941 — found on reading the page.
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Kuperman Icchok is one of 2,140 people recorded in the surviving register of the transit
visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
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