Aleksander Halperson

Aleksander Halperson received transit visa no. 370 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records engineer, aged 35.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

35

Occupation

Engineer

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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…
  115, 36, Luck, engin.; cousin Saul Lehman 175 Warrick str 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 1200) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Halperson Aleksander, ENGINEER, born 1905 Luck, single; 340 Route Cohen; Warsaw passport of 1937 extended in Warsaw 17 February 1939, by the British Legation in Kaunas 13 August 1940 and by the Embassy in Tokyo 28 June 1941.