Dawid Szpektorow

Dawid Szpektorow received transit visa no. 63 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 27 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 65.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

65

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  #656, age 66, b. Terepiec, merchant, arr. 3.2, no.409
• 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 1189); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Szpektorow Dawid, merchant, born 1875, married; 1252 Rue Lafayette; on a passport issued by the Polish Consulate-General in Harbin, 8 February 1932 (No. 42334/33), extended in Kaunas 1940 (S-125) and by the Embassy in Tokyo 5 March 1941; the consul noted the passport was a matter under the Interior Ministry's 1932 regulation.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 3 Feb 1941 (line 63)