Pinkus Papierczyk

Pinkus Papierczyk received transit visa no. 486 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records metal worker, aged 28.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

28

Occupation

Metal Worker

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

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 4351, Pinchas Papierczyk, born 1912 at Warsaw, who had come from Warsaw; the year agrees with the register's age and Warsaw agrees with the archive's other records.
• 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 244 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 29, born at Warsaw, a merchant, Polish; relatives abroad: an uncle, Morriss Fein, 2131 Prospect Avenue, Bronx, New York; a cousin, Lena Goodman, 1059 East 14th Street, Brooklyn, New York.
• 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 1116) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Papierczyk Pinkus, metalworker, born 1912 Warsaw, single; Chining Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 14 June 1941 (Ser. II 004052) on a British Legation Kaunas certificate of 23 November 1939 (P-34).
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Pinkus Papierczyk, 1946: born about 1912, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Se…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Pinkus Papierczyk, born about 1912 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1946 on the Mount Greylock. The register's compiled line gives 1912, and the two are 0 years apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at Seattle in 1946 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1383, film 291, image 979, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, their lists and sailings, Shanghai 1945–1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  The Agudath Israel organisation of refugees from Poland in Shanghai listed him among its members on 24 December 1945: Pinkus Papierczyk, born in 1912 in Warsaw, whose Polish passport was issued in Tokyo on 13 June 1941. The UNRRA China Office kept the list with its 1946 registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 3 October 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 3 October 1946, lists Pinkus Papierczyk: born 1912 at Warsaw, a merchant, arrived in 1941 from Lithuania by way of Siberia; the year, the town and the trade agree with the 1940 Vilna refugee list, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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