Beiles Wolf

Beiles Wolf received transit visa no. 2036 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. The register records textile engineer, aged 34.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

34

Occupation

Textile Engineer

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; 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 628, Wolf Bejlis, born 1896 at Różany, who came from Różany; the year, 1896, is ten years earlier than the register's compiled age (34 in 1940) suggests, so the archive shows the entry as a lead, not as an identification.
• 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 7104, Wolf Bejles, born 1906 at Warszawa, who had come from Lodz; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 6 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 35, born at Warsaw, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 13 January 1941.
• 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 1211); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Beiles Wolf, engineer, Jewish, born 1906 Warsaw; registered 7 October 1941 on a passport issued by the Polish Embassy in Tokyo 17 April 1941 (Kaunas certificate of 19 August 1940) — found on reading the page.
• 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 13 Jan 1941 (line 2036)

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