Zygmunt Rappaport

Zygmunt Rappaport received transit visa no. 556 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records clerk, aged 35.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

35

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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 264 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 36, born at Siemiatycze, a clerk; relatives abroad: a sister, Sonia Rochlin, 293 East 167th Street, corner of College Avenue, New York; an uncle, Sam Edelman, 161 3rd Street, Batoroughe (Baton Rouge), Louisiana.
• 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 1034); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Rappaport Zygmunt, private clerk, Jewish, born 12 July 1905 Siemiatycze, single; registered 24 May 1941 — among the first Japan arrivals; 311 Yu Yuen Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 21 May 1941 — found on reading the page.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 24–32 — April 1941 (and a May continuation sheet)
  He left Japan for Shanghai on the Shanghai Maru, from Nagasaki, late April 1941 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of refugees who left Japan for Shanghai, April 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Rapaport Zygmunt". (Shanghai Maru, Nagasaki, late April 1941, Shanghai.)

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