Gelbron Boruch

Gelbron Boruch received transit visa no. 2005 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 37.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

37

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• Mark Halpern correspondence (9 Aug 2026): Netherlands Legation certificate, Tokyo, 18 March 1941 — Minister J.C. Pabst certifies that 74 named persons of Polish nationality "do not need a Netherlands visa in order to proceed to the Nethe…
  Amakusa Maru 74 — Netherlands Legation certificate (Tokyo, 18 Mar 1941), line 31. Cross-referenced by Mark Halpern, researcher (Aug 2026); archive pass concurs. raw register row read Geldron; repaired to Gelbron on this certificate's evidence.
• 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 1395); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Gelbron Boruch Mojsze, office clerk, Jewish, born 6 March 1903 Warsaw, single; registered 13 December 1941; 674/67/3 Tongshan Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 3 December 1941 — the ledger itself reads BORUCH, confirming the register against the index's 'Moruch'.
• The list of seventy-four — Netherlands Legation, Tokyo, 18 March 1941. On the Legation's letterhead (Gezantschap der Nederlanden), certifying 'that the undermentioned persons all of Polish nationality do not need a Netherlands visa in or…
  Named at position 31 of seventy-four on the Netherlands Legation's certificate of 18 March 1941 — the list of the people who reached Tsuruga on Sugihara's transit visas without a Curaçao endorsement, were refused permission to land, and whose ship was turned back towards Vladivostok. The Legation typed the name as "Gelbron Boruch Mojsze". A pencilled note beside it gives this register number, which is how the two records are joined.