Abram Sokol
Visa no. 225 · Kaunas, 30 July 1940
Abram Sokol received transit visa no. 225 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 52.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polnisch Age in 1940 52 Occupation Manufacturer Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list husband of #810
The journey Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Australia.
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… 7589; 1915; Mir 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…307; 52; Bialystok; Polish; cousin Ofenberger 50 Pine str New York
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Abram Sokol is one of 2,140 people recorded in the surviving register of the transit
visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
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