Symcha Elbaum

Symcha Elbaum received transit visa no. 541 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 46 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1910 at Warszawa; relatives abroad: a cousin, Abram Seydner, 349 Sliefeld, Brooklyn, New York.
• 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…
  Entry 121 (also numbered 137) of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 31, born at Warsaw, who arrived in Japan on 25 February 1941.
• 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 1371); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Elbaum Symcha Binem, merchant, born 1910 Warsaw, single; with his brother Majer; Tokyo-issued passport of 21 November 1941. — the ledger reads: Elbaum Symcha, merchant, born 22 January 1910 Warsaw, single; 72 Route Paul Henry; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (E-20, 21 November 1941) — with his brother Majer (entry 1372, b. 19 April 1911, passport E-19), who is not in the Kaunas register.
• 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 1327); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Elbaum Symcha Binem, merchant, born 1910 Warsaw, single; with his brother Majer; Tokyo-issued passport of 21 November 1941. — the ledger reads: Elbaum Symcha, merchant, born 22 January 1910 Warsaw, single; 72 Route Paul Henry; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (E-20, 21 November 1941) — with his brother Majer (entry 1372, b. 19 April 1911, passport E-19), who is not in the Kaunas register.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 28 March 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 28 March 1946, lists Symcha Elbaum: born 1910 at Warszawa, a merchant, arrived in 1941 from Wilno by way of Siberia; the year, the town and the trade agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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