Moses Gutman

Moses Gutman received transit visa no. 240 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 43.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

43

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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…
  1897 Bedzin; Polish; brother Isaak Gutman Hagilboa 9, Tel-Aviv
• 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 268; age 44; born Bedzin; Clerk; arr 13.2; from Vilno
• 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 240)
• 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 1047) — found on reading the ledger page itself — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Gutman Mojzesz (the register's 'Moses Gutman'), merchant, born 1897 Bedzin, married; 103 Route Prosper Paris, flat 4; passport G-95 (Ser. I 734140) issued by the Shanghai consulate 30 May 1941 — found on reading the page; name-form match, tentative. — owner reviewed 23 Aug 2026, held