Milrad Symcha

Milrad Symcha received transit visa no. 2115 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 22 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 27.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

27

Occupation

Clerk

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #1561

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 1080); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Milrad Symcha Jeszua, textile worker, born 26 December 1912 Warsaw, single; 54 Chusan Road, house 17; Tokyo-issued passport of 20 June 1941 (Ser. II 004082) on a British Legation Kaunas certificate of 16 August 1940 (M-301).
• Oral history interview with Jerry Milrod (born Izrael Milrod) — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 52388. Catalogue: born Jan 1 1911, Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland); born Warsaw 1 Jan 1911; Bluman: No.1561 Milrod Izrael, cle…
  USC Shoah Foundation VHA interview 52388: Jerry Milrod (born Izrael Milrod) — his brother Symcha — gave a testimony (catalogue: born Jan 1 1911, Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)); born Warsaw 1 Jan 1911; Bluman: No.1561 Milrod Izrael, clerk, 29, wife Lydia Ruth, brother of No.2115; the Shanghai ledger (entry 1078) has Milrod Izrael born 1 Jan 1911 Warsaw — the same date