Jakob Szapiro
Visa no. 484 · Kaunas, 31 July 1940
Jakob Szapiro received transit visa no. 484 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. Aged 46 in 1940.
What the register records
- Nationality as recorded
- Polnisch
- Age in 1940
- 46
- Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
- husband of #483, children (Bagla (9), Mojses (5))
Travelled with, and never given a number
- Bagla — child, aged 9
- Mojses — child, aged 5
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…
The 1940 Vilna refugee list has a Jakub Szapir at entry 5092, born 1924 at Kadzidło, who had come from Kadzidło. It is shown as a lead, not as this person: spelled Szapir Jakub, born 1924 against the register's age of 46, which puts the birth about 1894, with children of 9 and 5. - 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 a Jakub Szapir at entry 5599, born 1904 at Łódź, who had come from Łódź. It is shown as a lead, not as this person: spelled Szapir Jakub, born 1904 against the register's age of 46, which puts the birth about 1894; the line is hard to read. - 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 a Jakob Szapiro at entry 8199, born 1913 at Bialystok, who had come from Bialystok; the register's compiled age points to a birth about 1894, and its notes have him born at Pińsk, so the archive shows the entry as a lead, not as this person's record.
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