Kruk Sima-binem

Kruk Sima-binem received transit visa no. 1912 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records barber, aged 27.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

27

Occupation

Barber

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #1913

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 1313); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Kruk Sima Binem, HAIRDRESSER (fryzjer), born 2 October 1912 Lipno, married — wife ROZA, born 30 December 1918 Bedzin (the register's No.1913); Tokyo-issued passport of 13 September 1941 (Ser. III 2235) on British Legation Kaunas certificates of 16 August 1940 (K-443 his, K-449 hers).
• 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. 6109 — 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)
• 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 25 Feb 1941 (line 1912)