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

• hunt/jdc_shanghai: 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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)