Aron Kohn
Visa no. 253 · Kaunas, 30 July 1940
Aron Kohn received transit visa no. 253 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 45.
What the register records
- Nationality as recorded
- Polnisch
- Age in 1940
- 45
- Occupation
- Manufacturer
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; 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…
The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 2982, Aron Kohn, born 1896 at Warsaw, who had come from Warsaw; the year agrees with the register's age and Warsaw agrees with the archive's other records. - 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…
Entry 151 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 45, born at Warsaw, a manufacturer; relatives abroad: a cousin, Kwasnia Kon, Tel Aviv; A. Katiniewicz, Tel Aviv; a cousin, Girty Rakfeld, 13 Armhurst, Standford W.16, London. - 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 1183) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Kohn Aron-Binem, inspector (brakarz), born 9 June 1910 Rypin, single; 54 Kwenming Road apt 6; Tokyo-issued passport of 18 June 1941 (Ser. II 004080) on a British Legation Kaunas certificate of 9 August 1940 (K-408). NOTE: the register carries two Aron Kohns (Nos. 253 and 1585); the ledger does not say which. — owner reviewed 23 Aug 2026, held (one man, two rows — held until something says which)
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