Arnold Preschel

Arnold Preschel received transit visa no. 620 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records textiles, aged 41.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

41

Occupation

Textiles

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Rachik (35), son Wolf (6)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Rachik — wife, aged 35
• Wolf — son, aged 6

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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 256 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 42, born at Gwozdziec, a textile specialist; relatives abroad: a brother, Max Stetner, 1605 Townsend Avenue, Bronx, New York.
• 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 1489) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Preschel Arnold, clerk, born 1899 Gwozdziec, married; 838 Avenue Joffre; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (P-83, 6 December 1941).
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Arnold Preschel, 1946: born about 1899, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Arnold Preschel, born about 1899 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1899, and the two are 0 years apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1946 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 384, image 466, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• List of persons processed by the American Joint Distribution Committee's migration department, Shanghai, 1–30 April 1946 (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48686)
  The American Joint Distribution Committee's migration department in Shanghai processed Arnold Preschel for emigration in April 1946, according to its list for that month, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The name occurs once on the register, and the register already records this line's arrival in Shanghai.

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