Jacob Sapir

Jacob Sapir received transit visa no. 379 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records salesman, aged 36.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

36

Occupation

Salesman

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #386, son Piotr (5)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Piotr — son, aged 5

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

Where this comes from

• 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 1087); the names closely match on the repaired reading — matched on the repaired register name, approved under the owner's review of 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Sapir Jakob, INDUSTRIALIST, born 1904 Lodz, married — wife TOLA born 1903 (the register's No.386), son PIOTR SEWERYN born 1935; registered 10 August 1941; Hotel Savoy, 210 Broadway, room 1; Tokyo-issued passport of 15 February 1941 (Ser. II 290473) on British Legation Kaunas certificates S-357 and S-359 of 13 November 1939 and a Lodz identity card.
• 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 Jan 1941 (line 379)
• 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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad has Jakob Sapir with his wife. The name occurs only once on Sugihara's list and the list is of refugees at Kobe in 1941, the route his visa took; that is the basis of this attachment.

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