Wladyslaw Brandsztejn

Wladyslaw Brandsztejn received transit visa no. 641 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 31.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

31

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

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

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…
  39; age 32; b. Warsaw; merchant
• 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 1353); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Brandsztejn Wladyslaw, commercial representative, born 7 May 1909 Warsaw, married; 58 Chusan Road with his brothers Adolf and Michal; Tokyo-issued passport of 28 November 1941 — the third Brandsztejn brother, found on reading the page.