Juliusz Kopelman

Juliusz Kopelman received transit visa no. 730 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records timber specialist, aged 36.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

36

Occupation

Timber Specialist

The journey

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

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…
  #3223, b.1903 Proszniow, from Punzig
• 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 998); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Koppelman Julius, merchant, born 21 December 1903 Broszniow, single; registered 28 April 1941; 311 Yu Yuen Road c/o E. Bros, tel. 22762; on a passport issued by the Polish Commissioner-General in DANZIG 17 April 1939 (Ser. II 037608) on a Stryj identity card of 1931.
• Shanghai Ledger, page 125 (left): entries 994-1001, registered 23-28 April 1941: Wahrhaftig Oswald (b. 21 Mar 1898 Przemysl), Kawa Mieczyslaw (industrialist, b. 25 Feb 1896 Wloclawek), Ulrych Boruch (b. 16 Jun 1908 Warsaw), Kozlowski Ben…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 125 (right): entries 994-1001, registered 23-28 April 1941: Wahrhaftig Oswald (b. 21 Mar 1898 Przemysl), Kawa Mieczyslaw (industrialist, b. 25 Feb 1896 Wloclawek), Ulrych Boruch (b. 16 Jun 1908 Warsaw), Kozlowski Be…