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…
  Entry 39 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 32, born at Warsaw, a 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 — the ledger reads: 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.
• 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) — found on reading the ledger page itself — the ledger reads: 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.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 21 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 21 March 1946, lists Wladyslaw Brandsztein: born 1909 at Warsaw, an agent, arrived in 1941 from Wilna; the year and the town agree with the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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