Aleksander Gleichgewicht

Aleksander Gleichgewicht received transit visa no. 717 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records student->civil engineer, aged 17.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

17

Occupation

Student->Civil Engineer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

son of #718

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…
  234, 18, Warsaw, Student
• 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 1037) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Gleichgewicht Aleksander, 'with his parents', born 1923 Warsaw, single; registered 24 May 1941; 185 Route Dufour — his father Dr Izaak-Izrael (entry 1153, lawyer, b. 1888) registered that September.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR33-44 file 53 — “List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai and Harbin in the month of May 1941”, compiled by the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Comm…
  Named in the Kobe committee's list of persons who left Japan for Shanghai and Harbin in the month of May 1941 (JDC Archives). Gleichgewicht Aleksander, Polish, sailed for Shanghai on 5 May 1941 with Ruchla and Isak Israel. He registered with the Polish consulate in Shanghai one number after his mother — a family of three travelling together, on one line of one document.