Szapiro Salomon

Szapiro Salomon received transit visa no. 2088 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 21 August 1940. The register records rabbi, aged 27.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

27

Occupation

Rabbi

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Serena (27)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Serena — wife, aged 27

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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 5471, Salomon Szapiro, born 1912 at Warsaw, who had come from Kraków; the year agrees with the register's age and Warsaw agrees with the archive's other records.
• 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 171 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 30, a rabbi, who arrived in Japan on 25 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 1197); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Szapiro Salomon, RABBI, born 18 October 1912 Warsaw, married; registered 3 October 1941; Tokyo-issued passport of 23 May 1941 (Ser. II 004039) on a Warsaw identity card of 1938.
• 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 25 Jan 1941 (line 2088)
• The HIAS Shanghai registration of refugees, 1941–1… — Arolsen Archives, Bad Arolsen, collection 3.1.1.3, unit 19532 (further entries read on the same pages). A page may be shown singly with this citation; Arolsen is told where it appears.
  The HIAS Shanghai registration (Arolsen Archives, 3.1.1.3, unit 19532) lists Salomon Szapiro, a rabbinical student born on 18 October 1912 in Warsaw, and his wife Serena, born on 25 February 1911, who reached Shanghai by way of Siberia on 21 September 1941. The list reads: entry 6961, Arolsen 3.1.1.3/78797471 (unit 19532): "SZAPIRO Salomon, 18.10.12 Warsaw, Pol., rabbi student; wife: Serena, 25.2.11 Sewljun [?]; 21.9.41 from Blieicz [?], via Siberia; cousin Samuel Newman, Canal street, New York City". 18997 (3.1.1.3/78796412): Szapiro Salomon 12; Szapiro Serena 11 Sewiljusz.
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, their lists and sailings, Shanghai 1945–1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  UNRRA's China Office registered him in Shanghai in 1946 among the Polish rabbis and rabbinical students; he had arrived in China in September 1941 and wished to go on to the United States. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, Mizrachi members list and the United Board of Rabbis' birth-data pages, Shanghai 1945–46 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  The United Board of Rabbis and Rabbinical Colleges in Shanghai listed him among its members after the war, born in 1912 in Warsaw. His wife Sorena is listed with him, born in 1911. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• Polish rabbis and rabbinical students registered with UNRRA, Shanghai (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, China Office;… — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48676
  The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Shanghai register of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, has Salomon Szapiro, rabbinical student, arrived in China in Sep 1941, wishing to go to the United States. The name occurs once on the register; the list is of the refugees who came from Vilna by way of Kobe, and an arrival in Shanghai in Sep 1941 is the route this line is recorded as taking.

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