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…
  5570, 1922, from Pinsk
• 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…
  No.171, age 30, Rabbi, arr. 25.1.
• 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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)