Grosfater Saul

Grosfater Saul received transit visa no. 1950 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 36.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

36

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Where this comes from

• 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 251 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 37, born at Warsaw, a clerk, who travelled from Vilnius.
• 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 1310); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Grosfater Saul, clerk (urzednik), born 2 August 1904 Warsaw, WIDOWER; 805/11 Seward Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 10 September 1941 (Ser. III 2231) on a British Legation Kaunas certificate of 12 December 1939 (G-372).
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 28 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 28 March 1946, lists Saul Grossfater: born 1904 at Warsaw, a bookkeeper, arrived in 1941 from Lithuania; the year and the town agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Saul Grosfater, of Warsaw, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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