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