Artur Seidl

Artur Seidl received transit visa no. 475 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records mech engineer, aged 48.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

German

Age in 1940

48

Occupation

Mech Engineer

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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 7300, Artur Seidl, born 1892 at Kremszyn, who had come from Lodz; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  Entry 282 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 49, born at Lodz, an engineer; relatives abroad: a cousin, E. Stern, 977 Bryden, Columbus, Ohio.
• JDC Shanghai migration file: SEIDL Artur
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 133: SEIDL Artur, file no. 2252. Match: register No.475 'Artur eidl' (repaired: Artur Seidl), and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree. NOTE: th
• JDC Archives, New York — Shanghai Migration Files, box index (AR 33/44, file 00014): the alphabetical index to the JDC's Shanghai emigration case files, 1946-1950 — some 2,640 case files covering about 5,400 persons, each family under on…
  JDC Shanghai Migration Files, case file no. 2252 — an emigration case file opened for the family in Shanghai after the war; the file itself can be requested from the JDC Archives

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