Saul Margulies

Saul Margulies received transit visa no. 355 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records rabbi, aged 39.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

39

Occupation

Rabbi

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

plus family

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• JDC Shanghai migration file: MARGULIES Saul David
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 82: MARGULIES Saul David, file no. 7718. Match: register No.355 'aul Margulis' (repaired: Saul Margulies), and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts ag
• 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 1501); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Margulies Saul Dawid, RABBI, born 4 November 1900 Grodzisko, married; registered 14 December 1941; Tokyo-issued passport of 3 December 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 355)
• HIAS Shanghai (the Far Eastern Jewish Central Information Bureau for Emigrants, M. Birman, manager) to HIAS New York: the list of refugees who left Shanghai during August 1946 — sixteen names on the first sheet, all sailing on 11 August…
  HIAS Shanghai's list of refugees who left Shanghai during August 1946 names a 'Margulies, Saul' among the sixteen who sailed on 11 August 1946 aboard the S.S. Marine Lynx for the United States. Under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 a name on a list of the Sugihara refugees' own route counts as a corroboration when the full name occurs once on the register and the record's place and date fit the route; all three hold here, and the line is attached on that basis.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Saul David Margulies, 1946: born about 1900, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Fran…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Saul David Margulies, born about 1900 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the Marine Lynx. The register's compiled line gives 1901, and the two are 1 year 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 1946 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 384, image 30, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, their lists and sailings, Shanghai 1945–1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  He left Shanghai for San Francisco on the Marine Lynx on Sunday 11 August 1946. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, Mizrachi members list and the United Board of Rabbis' birth-data pages, Shanghai 1945–46 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  The United Board of Rabbis and Rabbinical Colleges in Shanghai listed him among its members after the war, born in 1900 in Groblam. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• Polish rabbis and rabbinical students registered with UNRRA, Shanghai (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, China Office;… — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48676
  The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Shanghai register of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, has Saul Dawid Margulies, rabbi, arrived in China in 1941, wishing to go to Palestine. The name occurs once on the register; the list is of the refugees who came from Vilna by way of Kobe, and an arrival in Shanghai in 1941 is the route this line is recorded as taking.
• List of persons processed by the American Joint Distribution Committee's migration department, Shanghai, 1–30 April 1946 (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48686)
  The American Joint Distribution Committee's migration department in Shanghai processed Saul Margulies for emigration in April 1946, according to its list for that month, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This is the only line on the register with this given name and surname, and the register already records this line's arrival in Shanghai.
• 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 Saul Dawid Margulies, aged 41, a rabbi, born at a place it gives as Grobla Jan., who reached Japan from Kovno on 25 February 1941. Sugihara's ledger lost the first letter of his given name; the register has it in full.
• 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 Saul Dawid Margulies, born in 1900, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and both his given names agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 3836, Saul Dawid Margulis, born in 1900 at Grabla, who came from Pruszkow.

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