Icek-Wolf Szmulewicz

Icek-Wolf Szmulewicz received transit visa no. 308 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 38.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

38

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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…
  No.160, age 39, b. Wielun, arr. 13.1.
• 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 1016); the register line's repaired reading and the ledger agree exactly — matched on the repaired register name, approved under the owner's review of 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Szmulewicz Icek Wolf, merchant, born 24 February 1902 Wielun, married; 372 Rue Bourgeat, house 29; passport S-198 (Ser. I 734116) issued by the Shanghai consulate 13 May 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 13 Jan 1941 (line 308)