Aron Kohn

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…
  2982, Warszawa, b.1896, from Warszawa
• 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…
  151, 45, Warsaw, manuf.; cousin Kwasnia Kon Tel Aviv, A.Katiniewicz Tel Aviv, 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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)