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…
  Entry 210 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 54, born at Warsaw, Polish; relatives abroad: a brother-in-law, 1013 Avenue J, Brooklyn, New York.
• 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 — the ledger reads: 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).
• 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)
  In April 1946 the American Joint Distribution Committee's migration department in Shanghai processed Stanislaw (Szlama) Mendelson and his wife Evelyn (Chana), of 772/47 Ward Road, for Brooklyn. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 29 August 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed in La-karov ve-la-rachok on 29 August 1946, lists Schlama Mendelsohn, born 1887 at Warsaw, an estate agent, arrived in 1941 from Vilna by way of Siberia (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• 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 8338, Mendelson Stanisław, born 1887 at Warsaw, who came from Warsaw, beside his wife Chana; the year agrees with the age the register gives, and the name Stanisław with what the archive already holds.

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