Szmul-Eliasz Taub

Szmul-Eliasz Taub received transit visa no. 302 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

• 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 1235); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Taub Szmul-Eljasz, merchant, Jewish, born 18 February 1901 Wodzislaw, married; registered 21 October 1941; 1 Ching Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 15 October 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 302)