Benjamin Flatz

Benjamin Flatz received transit visa no. 39 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 27 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 37.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

37

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Henryka (35), child Ryszard (4)

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Henryka — wife, aged 35
• Ryszard — child, aged 4

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

• 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…
  7846, Warszawa, b.1903, from Warszawa
• 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…
  168, 38, Warsaw, merchant, arr 13.2, from Vilno
• 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 986); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026