Perkal Szlama

Perkal Szlama received transit visa no. 1969 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records clothing (weaver), aged 25.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

25

Occupation

Clothing (Weaver)

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…
  4377, Zalechow, 1914
• 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 1443); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Perkal Szlama Fajwel, office clerk, born 14 December 1914 Zelechow, single; 674 Tongshan Road; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (P-88, 13 December 1941).
• 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. 1969 — 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 24 Feb 1941 (line 1969)
• Oral history interview with Stephen Perkal (born Szlama Perkal) — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 55418. Catalogue: born Dec 14 1914, Żelechów (Lublin, Poland); born Zelechow 14 Dec 1914; Bluman: No.1969 Perkal Szl…
  USC Shoah Foundation VHA interview 55418: Stephen Perkal (born Szlama Perkal) — the interviewee himself — gave a testimony (catalogue: born Dec 14 1914, Żelechów (Lublin, Poland)); born Zelechow 14 Dec 1914; Bluman: No.1969 Perkal Szlama, weaver, 25; the Shanghai ledger (entry 1443) and the 1942 dossier give Perkal Szlama Fajwel, born 14 Dec 1914 Zelechow — the same date