Michal Brandsztejn

Michal Brandsztejn received transit visa no. 642 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records dentist, aged 37.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

37

Occupation

Dentist

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…
  37; age 39; b. Warsaw; Dentist; brother Bernard Brandstein Fermata San Martin 640 Buenos Aires
• 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 1351) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Brandsztejn Michal, born 22 September 1902 Warsaw; 58 Chusan Road with his brothers; Tokyo-issued passport of 28 November 1941.