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…
  256; 42; Gwozdziec; textile spec.; brother Max Stetner 1605 Townsend Ave Bronx NY
• 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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).