Maks Ginzberg

Maks Ginzberg received transit visa no. 290 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records engineer, aged 39.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

39

Occupation

Engineer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Rachela (38)

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Singapore.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Rachela — wife, aged 38

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

Where this comes from

• 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 1157) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Ginzberg Maks, engineer, born 5 September 1900 Mosty Wielkie, married; registered 24 September 1941; Tokyo-issued passport of 22 September 1941 — with his wife Rachela (entry 1158, b. 25 Dec 1910 Konigsberg).
• 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 24 Jan 1941 (line 290)