Szymon Cukierman

Szymon Cukierman received transit visa no. 714 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. Aged 46 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

46

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

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, at entry 758, Szymon Cuskerman, born 1894, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Szymon Cukierman, born in 1894, an agronomist of Warsaw, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and the town agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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