Winograd Srul

Winograd Srul received transit visa no. 1939 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records tailor, aged 42.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

42

Occupation

Tailor

The journey

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

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 6284, Srul Winograd, born 1898 at Wołyń, who had come from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and Wołyń agrees with what the archive already holds.
• 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 291 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1898 at Wolyn, Polish; relatives abroad: a friend, Jacob Rosenbojm, Federation of Labour, New York.
• 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 747 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 33, born at Wohyn, a tailor, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 February 1941.
• JDC Shanghai migration file: WINOGRAD Srul
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 168: WINOGRAD Srul, file no. 5849. Match: register No.1939 'inograd rul' (repaired: Winograd Srul), and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree. NO
• 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 1335); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Winograd Srul, tailor, born 1898 Wolyn; 805 Seward Road; passport issued by the Shanghai consulate 20 November 1941 (W-107, Ser. III 1704).
• 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. 5849 — an emigration case file opened for the family in Shanghai after the war; the file itself can be requested from the JDC Archives
• 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 1939)

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