Adolf Brandsztejn

Adolf Brandsztejn received transit visa no. 643 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records dentist, aged 34.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

34

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…
  Entry 38 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 35, born at Warsaw; relatives abroad: an uncle, F. Weingarten, 2008 Hughes Avenue, Bronx, New York; a brother, B. Brandstein.
• 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 1350) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Brandsztejn Adolf, dental technician, born 22 February 1906 Warsaw, married; 58 Chusan Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 29 November 1941 — one of three Brandsztejn brothers registered together.

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