Todres Halpern

Todres Halpern received transit visa no. 474 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records jeweller, aged 35.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

35

Occupation

Jeweller

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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…
  2352; Brzesc; 1905
• 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…
  No.74, age 56, b. Brzesc, Jeweller, arr 25.1.
• 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 1212); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Halpern Todres, jeweller, born 30 December 1905 Brzesc, married; registered 9 October 1941; 364 Rue Bourgeat; Tokyo-issued passport of 24 July 1941 on a Kaunas certificate of December 1939 — found on reading the page.
• 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 Feb 1941 (line 474)
• Tadeusz Romer papers, Library and Archives Canada, MG 31 D 68, vol. 2 (microfilm reel C-10451, frame 1088): 'Lista obywateli polskich ewakuowanych z Dalekiego Wschodu', page 2 — Kamakura Maru, Shanghai 16 August 1942: officials (the Rome…
  Named on the Polish Embassy's list of Polish citizens evacuated from the Far East on the exchange ship s/s Kamakura Maru, Shanghai, 16 August 1942 — one of the 41 'civilian refugees' for whom Ambassador Romer obtained places (evacuee no. 74, 'HALPERN Todres'); the party sailed with Romer to Lourenco Marques and most went on to England
• Library and Archives Canada, Tadeusz Romer fonds, MG 31 D 68, reel C-10452, frame 626, via Canadiana Heritage — the same list, page 2, entries 11-22 (the Goldhammer family, Halpern, Hazenberg, Klibanski, Klok and wife, Kostelaniec, Kronz…
  On the Polish Embassy's list of 41 Polish refugees (Romer's Shanghai-period papers) (Romer fonds, reel C-10452, frame 626, entry 14): HALPERN Todres, jubiler (jeweller), born 1905; passport H:68/2/15/42, Szanghaj 20.V.42, do 8.12.1943 — Holds no visas. Applies for military service. If impossible, wishes to go to the Union of South Africa, where he has prospects of work in his trade.