Isaak Nizynski

Isaak Nizynski received transit visa no. 587 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 25.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

25

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

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

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 1431) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Nizynski Isaak, trader, born 7 July 1915 Warsaw; Tokyo-issued passport of 24 November 1941.
• 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 Isaak Nizunski: born 1915 at Warsaw, a merchant, arrived in 1941 from Kowno; the year and the trade agree with the archive's compiled register (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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