Abram Mojsiej Trompoler

Abram Mojsiej Trompoler received transit visa no. 729 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records electrician, aged 29.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Electrician

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

Reva, Mirjam

The journey

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

What is known

Moissiej Abraham Trompoler, a Polish citizen born 16 September 1910 in Warsaw, an electrical engineer (electrotechnik), was issued a Polish identity certificate (Zaswiadczenie/Certificat) by the Consulate of Poland in Kaunas on 11 December 1940. The document bears a Japanese transit visa stamp allowing passage through Japan to Surinam, Curacao and other Netherlands colonies, dated 1 August 1940, signed by the Japanese consul in Kaunas.

Safe conduct pass of Mojsiej Abraham Trompler of Warsaw, Poland, bearing visas for travel from Lithuania to Curacao (or other overseas Dutch territory) with transit through Japan. The document was issued in Kaunas by Japanese Consul Chiune Sugihara with his manuscript endorsement and original signature, and by acting Dutch Consul Jan Zwartendijk with his endorsed stamp and original signature. This single paper allowed the Jewish bearer to escape otherwise certain death in Lithuania.

Mojsiej Abraham (Moshe Avraham) Trompler, a Polish Jew born in Warsaw in 1910, obtained a transit visa issued in Kaunas by Japanese Consul Chiune Sugihara. He escaped via Kobe, Japan, arriving alone in Shanghai in August 1941. Active in the Mizrachi movement as its Shanghai secretary, he remained in China after the war to help the Jewish Agency organize migration to Israel and worked as an electrician for UNRRA.

TRANSIT VISA. Seen for the journey through Japan (to Surinam, Curacao and other Netherlands' colonies) 1940 VIII. 1. Consul du Japon a Kaunas. TROMPOLER MOISSIEJ ABRAHAM 16.IX.1910 Warszawa elektrotechnik - electrotechnicien

(HOLOCAUST) Safe Conduct Pass of Mojsiej Abraham Trompler of Warsaw, Poland. Bearing visas for travel from Lithuania to Curacao (or other overseas Dutch territory), with transit through Japan. A highly rare original Travel Document issued by Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara and Dutch diplomat Jan Zwartendijk. This single paper allowed the Jewish bearer to escape an otherwise certain death in Lithuania. Seventy-five years later, It is estimated that More Than 40,000 Jews (survivors and their descendants) are alive today due to the issue by Zwartendijk and Sugihara of this "Visa for Life."

Trompoler found sanctuary in Asia as he had obtained a visa issued in Kaunas by Japanese Consul Chiune Sugihara. Born in Warsaw in 1910, Trompoler arrived on his own to Shanghai from Kobe, Japan, in August 1941. Active in Mizrachi, he was the movement's secretary in Shanghai, and in the post-war years stayed in China in order to assist the Jewish Agency with their efforts to organize migration to Israel.

Where this comes from

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 3 Feb 1941 (line 729)
• 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 1284) — found on reading the ledger page itself — the ledger reads: Trompoler Abraham Mojsiej, electrician, born 16 September 1910 Warsaw, married; 54/17 Chusan Road; registered 17 November 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate 4 November 1941 (T-29) — found on reading the page.
• American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives: the Kobe Jewish committee's JDC relief list of February 1941, page 35
  Page 35 of the Kobe committee's list of refugees receiving JDC aid, February 1941, enters Trompoler Abraham-Mojsiej, 31, of Warsaw, electro-technician. Both given names agree, and so does the calling: the register records him as an electrician. The list's age of 31 is two years above the register's 29.
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, Mizrachi members list and the United Board of Rabbis' birth-data pages, Shanghai 1945–46 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  A list of the members of the Mizrachi Organization of Polish War Refugees in Shanghai, dated 20 December 1945 and kept in the records of UNRRA's China Office, gives his birth as 16 September 1910 in Warsaw, and his Polish passport as No. T.29/2/30/41, issued in Shanghai on 4 November 1941. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• HaTzofe, 14 October 1945 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  In September 1945 the Mizrachi members from Poland in Shanghai wrote to HaTzofe in Tel Aviv, at the first chance after the war, to send their greetings and ask for help; the letter, printed on 14 October 1945, names among them 'Moshe Trompoler (from Warsaw)' (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• Important Shanghai issued passport - Our Passports
• A document held in the archive's files
• A document held in the archive's files
• A document held in the archive's files
• The certificate of identity issued by the Polish Legation in Kaunas to Abram Mojsiej Trompoler (No. 729), No. T-169, with his photograph, and the facing page with Zwartendijk's Curaçao declaration and the Sugihara transit visa of 1 Augus…
• (HOLOCAUST)
• Group of twelve documents and certificates issued in China to the Polish Jew Mojsiej Abraham (Moshe Avraham) Trompler.
• Trompoler certificate — second scan (front + reverse composite): cert Nr. J-169, Zwartendijk No.1448, Sugihara visa 1 Aug 1940
• The certificate of identity issued by the Polish Legation in Kaunas to Mojsiej Abraham Trompoler (No. 729), 11 December 1939, and the facing page with Zwartendijk's Curaçao declaration No. 1448 of 27 July 1940 and the Sugihara transit vi…

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