Bronet Chaim-Szoul

Bronet Chaim-Szoul received transit visa no. 487 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 32.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

32

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Minja (28)

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for South America.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Minja — wife, aged 28

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

• 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 991) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Bronet Chaim-Szoul, merchant, born 7 February 1909 Warsaw, married; registered 18 April 1941; 698/7 Rue Bourgeat; passport B-115 issued by the Shanghai consulate 16 April 1941. — LEDGER ENTRY READ: His wife BRONET MINIA, born 13 March 1912 Warsaw, is entry 1031 (registered 24 May 1941, 698/7 Rue Bourgeat, passport B-115/8 of 19 May 1941); she is not in the Kaunas register.
• 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 13 Jan 1941 (line 487)
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR33-44 file 53 — “List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai and Harbin in the month of May 1941”, compiled by the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Comm…
  Named in the Kobe committee's list of persons who left Japan for Shanghai and Harbin in the month of May 1941 (JDC Archives). The document enters BRONET MINIA, Polish, sailing from Nagasaki for Shanghai on 2 May 1941 aboard the Shanghai Maru. The consular ledger's family note against this line records only 'wife Minja (28)' — a forename in a margin. This is the first document the archive has found that writes her out with a surname of her own.