Pinchos Szapiro

Pinchos Szapiro received transit visa no. 592 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 45.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

45

Occupation

Manufacturer

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Where this comes from

• List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 6577, Pinchos Szpiro, born 1895 at Bialystok, who came from Bialystok; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 173 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 46, born at Lodz, a manufacturer.
• Arolsen Archives, Bad Arolsen — the online person index (collections 2.1.2.1, 3.1.1.2, 3.2.1.1, 3.2.1.4 and 6.3.1.1), reviewed against the register's ages and birthplaces, 17 October 2026
  The Arolsen Archives at Bad Arolsen hold, among the post-war files of the International Refugee Organization, a record indexed as Pinchos Szpiro, born 10 October 1895 at Lodz. The year agrees with the age recorded for this visa holder, and the birthplace with the Kobe community's refugee register. Others of this surname are on the register, so this is held as a lead.

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