Abram-Leib Taub

Abram-Leib Taub received transit visa no. 321 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records decorator, aged 44.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

44

Occupation

Decorator

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 1306); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Taub Abram Lejb, workshop owner, born 3 August 1895 Warsaw, married; registered 25 November 1941; 35 Moulmein Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 2 October 1941 on a British Legation Kaunas certificate of 26 July 1940 (T-65); valid to 1 October 1942.
• 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 321)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Abram Taub, 1948: born about 1896, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco). Sh…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Abram Taub, born about 1896 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1948 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1896, and the two are 0 years apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1948 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 395, image 514, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register lists Abram Lejb Taub, also called Arnold, aged 46, born at Warsaw, a painter, who reached Japan from Kovno on 25 February 1941. Sugihara's ledger lost the first letter of his surname; the register has it in full.

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