Szepsel Gordon
Visa no. 281 · Kaunas, 30 July 1940
Szepsel Gordon received transit visa no. 281 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 39.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polnisch Age in 1940 39 Occupation Merchant The journey Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
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… 2060; b.Wysoki Lit. 1901; 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.53, age 40, b. Wysokie, Merchant, arr 25.1.1941 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 1129); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Gordon Szepsel, GRAIN MERCHANT (zbozowiec), born 24 July 1901 Wysokie; 832c Avenue Joffre; passport G-102 issued by the Shanghai consulate itself 11 September 1941, valid a year. Open this entry in the full register →
Szepsel Gordon 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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