Zygmunt Rapaport

Zygmunt Rapaport 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…
  264; 36; Siemiatycze; Clerk; sister Sonia Rochlin 293 East 167 str Cor Colege Ave New York, uncle Sam Edelman 161 3 str Batoroughe 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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.