Szepsel Gordon

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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 2060, Szepsel Gordon, born 1901 at Wysoki Lit., who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and the town with what the archive already holds for this line.
• 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…
  Entry 53 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 40, born at Wysokie, a merchant, who arrived in Japan on 25 January 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 — the ledger reads: 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.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 28 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 28 March 1946, lists Szepsel Gordon: born 1901 at Wysockie, a merchant, arrived in 1941 from Warsaw by way of Siberia; the year, the town and the trade agree with the 1940 Vilna refugee list, the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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