Wilhelm Krampel

Wilhelm Krampel received transit visa no. 66 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 27 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 39.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

39

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Irena (29)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Irena — wife, aged 29

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

Where this comes from

• 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 985); the register line's repaired reading and the ledger agree exactly — matched on the repaired register name, approved under the owner's review of 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Krampel Zygmunt Wilhelm, merchant, born 1900 Lwow, married; registered 2 April 1941; 255D Route Cohen, tel. 77403; Lwow passport of 7 August 1939 extended at Kolbuszowa 7 September 1939, by the British Embassy in Kaunas 4 January and 26 July 1940, and by the Embassy in Tokyo 18 February 1941; a new passport issued by the Shanghai consulate.