Szlama Majzlic

Szlama Majzlic received transit visa no. 2064 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 21 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva?, aged 17.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

17

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva?

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 1512); the ledger's 'Szuama' is plausibly its own misreading of Szlama — matched on the repaired register name, approved under the owner's review of 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Majzlic Szlama, born 15 November 1922 Ostrow; 35 Moulmein Road; registered 14 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (M-121, 2 December 1941).