Szmul Kaptan

Szmul Kaptan received transit visa no. 406 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 44 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

44

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 2967, Szmul Kaplan, born 1896, who had come from Motol near Pińsk; the year agrees with the register's age.
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Szmul Kaplan, a factory owner born in 1896, of Motol, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and the town agree with this register line. The register's other Kaplan of this age, No. 444, is typed in Sugihara's ledger as Szula Kaplan, a woman; this card's Szmul is this line, typed Szmul Kaptan. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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