Ajgengold Symcha

Ajgengold Symcha received transit visa no. 2130 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 22 August 1940. The register records accountant, aged 41.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polisch

Age in 1940

41

Occupation

Accountant

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.

Where this comes from

• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  No.3, 1898 Warszawa, Polish
• 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 1341); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Ajgengold Symcha, book-keeper, born 17 January 1898 Warsaw, married; 805 Seward Road; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (A-51, 4 December 1941).
• 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 24 Feb 1941 (line 2130)