Anatol Hufnagel

Anatol Hufnagel received transit visa no. 244 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 36.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

36

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Helena (22)

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Ecuador.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Helena — wife, aged 22

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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…
  #2283, Warszawa, 1903, from Warszawa
• 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 298; age 38; born Warsaw; Journalist; arr 3.2; from Vilno
• 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 987) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Hufnagel Anatol, born 5 April 1903 Warsaw; registered 4 April 1941; 1277 Yu Yuen Road, house 16; passport H-49 issued by the Shanghai consulate itself 3 April 1941, valid to 2 April 1942.
• 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 3 Feb 1941 (line 244)