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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 2376, Jerzy-Jan Halpern, born 1906 at Küthon, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and his wife Irena, also on the register (No. 387), follows him on the list.
• 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 — the ledger reads: 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)
• Names and addresses of Polish refugees registered with UNRRA wishing to return to Poland, Shanghai, 1946 (United Nations Relief and Rehabilit… — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48688
  In 1946 the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Shanghai office drew up a one-page list of the Polish refugees registered with it who wished to be repatriated to Poland; the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has indexed its 37 names. Dr Jerzy Jan Halpern is on it; the register has Jerzy-Jan Halpern as a physician who reached Shanghai, and his is the only line of that name.
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0165, Displaced Persons — Polish: repatriation and emigration correspondence, Shanghai 1945–1947 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  Dr. Jerzy Jan Halpern led a group of seven Poles whom UNRRA repatriated from Shanghai on the Soviet ship Smolny, which sailed on 4 September 1946 for Vladivostok, to go on by the Trans-Siberian railway to Poland. His Polish passport was No. H-50/1/22/41 and his Soviet transit visa No. 647508. On 6 November 1946 UNRRA's mission in Warsaw cabled that the seven had arrived. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 31 March 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 31 March 1946, lists Jerzy Jan Halpern, born 1906 at Radom, an economist dr, arrived in 1941 from Poland (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register lists Jerzy Jan Halpern, aged 35, born at Kothen, an economist.

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