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…
  No 251; age 37; born Warsaw; Clerk; from Vilno
• 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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).