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…
  Entry 160 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 39, born at Wielun, who arrived in Japan on 13 January 1941.
• 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 — the ledger reads: 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)
• 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 Japan for Shanghai on the Nagasaki Maru, from Nagasaki, 24 April 1941 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of refugees who left Japan for Shanghai, April 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Szmulewicz Icek — Polish". (Nagasaki Maru, Nagasaki, 24 April 1941, Shanghai.)
• 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 Icek Szmulewicz, born in 1902, a merchant of Chorzów, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and his trade agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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