Marek Szpigelman

Visa no. 288 · Kaunas, 30 July 1940

Marek Szpigelman received transit visa no. 288 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 16 in 1940.

What the register records

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Philippines.

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 25 Feb 1941 (line 288)
JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 24–32 — April 1941 (and a May continuation sheet)
He left Kobe on the Tatuta Maru, April 1941, bound for Manila (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of refugees who left Japan in April 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "″ Marek". (Tatuta Maru, Kobe, April 1941, Manila.)
Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Marek Szpigelman, born in 1924, of Będzin, whose father was Izaak, and who was in Wilno during the war; the year and his father's name agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.