Szlama Mendelson

Szlama Mendelson received transit visa no. 364 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 53.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

53

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #449

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  210, 54, Warsaw, Polish; brother in law 1013 Ave J Brooklyn NY
• 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 1167); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Mendelson Szlama, merchant, born 1887 Warsaw, married; 181 Route Edan; Warsaw passport of 1938 extended by the British Legation in Kaunas 27 January and 24 July 1940 (M-56) and by the Embassy in Tokyo 4 July 1941 — with his wife Chawa (entry 1168, No.449).