Abram Szulman

Abram Szulman received transit visa no. 680 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records journalist, aged 27.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

27

Occupation

Journalist

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Chana (23)

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Australia.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Chana — wife, aged 23

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.

What is known

Listed in the Sugihara Database among visa recipients of Polish nationality. A Sugihara transit visa was issued on 1 August 1940.

SZULMAN, Abram Polnisch 01-Aug

Where this comes from

• List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has an Abram Szulman at entry 5171, born 1908 at Krośniewice, who had come from Brzeziny. It is shown as a lead, not as this person: born 1908 at Krośniewice against the register's age of 27, which puts the birth about 1913; the line is hard to read, so the reading is uncertain.
• List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 8633, Abram Szulman, born 1913 at Warszawa, who had come from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 310 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 28, born at Warsaw, a journalist; relatives abroad: an uncle, Mojaze Wulf, Kfar Chasidim near Haifa.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  He left Kobe on the Kasima Maru on 6 July 1941, bound for Australia (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Szulman Abram, ″ Chana". (Kasima Maru, Kobe, 6 July 1941, destination Australia.)
• Arolsen Archives, Bad Arolsen, collection 3.1.3.1 (AJDC Emigration Service, Paris, index cards): Abram Szulman's index card, document 80211189
  In 1952 Abram Szulman, born at Warsaw on 20 June 1913, had a case open with the emigration service of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Paris, travelling with Chana Szulman and bound for the United States; the card notes that he had registered for an American visa under the Polish quota in 1949. Index card, AJDC Emigration Service Paris, held by the Arolsen Archives, Bad Arolsen (ITS Digital Archive).
• Arolsen Archives, Bad Arolsen, collection 3.1.3.1 (AJDC Emigration Service, Paris, index cards): Abram Szulman's index card, document 80211189

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