Isak Szpigelman

Isak Szpigelman received transit visa no. 289 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 54.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

54

Occupation

Manufacturer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

father of #288

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 261 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1886 at Bedzin, Polish; relatives abroad: a brother-in-law, Emil Linton, 10a Challis Avenue, Potts Point, Sidney.
• 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 657 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register (also numbered 410): aged 55, born at Bedzin, a manufacturer, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 February 1941.
• 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 289)
• 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: "Szpigelman Isaak, ″ Marek — Kobe — Manila (Tatuta Maru)". (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 Izaak Szpigelman, born in 1886, a factory owner of Będzin, who was in Wilno during the war; the year, the town and his trade agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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