Jerzy-Jan Halpern

Jerzy-Jan Halpern received transit visa no. 388 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records physician, aged 34.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

34

Occupation

Physician

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #387

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for South America.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  2376; Kiithon S; 1906; from Warszawa
• 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 977); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Halpern Jerzy-Jan, clerk, EVANGELICAL-REFORMED, born Kothen, married; registered 14 February 1941 on a certificate (H-10) issued by the Polish Legation in Kaunas 15 January 1940 and a Warsaw identity card of 10 August 1939 — with his wife Irena (entry 978, No.387).
• 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 3 Feb 1941 (line 388)