Samuel Graudenz

Samuel Graudenz received transit visa no. 330 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records student, aged 24.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

24

Occupation

Student

The journey

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

What is known

A worn, folded travel document bearing numerous ink stamps, revenue stamps, and handwritten notations, consistent with a wartime transit visa/passport of the Sugihara-Zwartendijk era. The archive holds this image as the document of Samuel Graudenz. Museum accession label 'L2008.16.3' is visible on the artifact.

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.60, age 25, b. Koln, Student
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — 'List of Polish war refugees in China', 242 names: the Polish (Sugihara-stream) group in wartime Shanghai, among them Gedalia Zupnik of the Mir, Chaim Ba…
  USHMM 'List of Polish war refugees in China' (242 names); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026
• Oral history interview with Samuel Graudenz — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 24160. Catalogue: born Oct 25 1916, Cologne (Germany); born Cologne 25 Oct 1916; Bluman: No.330 Samuel Graudenz, student, 24. Viewing ne…
  USC Shoah Foundation VHA interview 24160: Samuel Graudenz — the interviewee himself — gave a testimony (catalogue: born Oct 25 1916, Cologne (Germany)); born Cologne 25 Oct 1916; Bluman: No.330 Samuel Graudenz, student, 24
• Oral history interview with Samuel Graudenz — second interview — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 52974. Catalogue: born Oct 25 1916, Cologne (Germany); born Cologne 25 Oct 1916. Viewing needs a free VHA registratio…
  USC Shoah Foundation VHA interview 52974: Samuel Graudenz — second interview — the interviewee himself — gave a testimony (catalogue: born Oct 25 1916, Cologne (Germany)); born Cologne 25 Oct 1916
• A document held in the archive's files
• Catalogue still for the oral history of Samuel Graudenz — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 24160 (the archive's public catalogue frame, 352x240); links to the testimony at vha.usc.edu/testimony/24160