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.

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.

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…
  4649, Warszawa, 1898, from Warszawa
• 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…
  310, 28, Warsaw, journ.; uncle Mojaze Wulf Kfar Chasidim near Haifa