Szpiro Izrael

Szpiro Izrael received transit visa no. 2125 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 22 August 1940. Aged 67 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polisch

Age in 1940

67

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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…
  5158; Warzaawa; b.1916
• 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 1009); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Szpiro Izrael, INDUSTRIALIST, born 1874 Sniadowo, married; registered 7 May 1941; 150 Route des Soeurs apt 7 — the address of Wigdor Aron Szpiro (entry 1007) and Genia (1008); Tokyo-issued passport of 22 October 1940 (Ser. I 731189) 'on data given at the Embassy, without right of extension'.