Juliusz Koppelman

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

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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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 3223, Juliusz Kopelman, born 1903 at Broszniów, who had come from Danzig; the year agrees with the register's age.
• 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 — the ledger reads: 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.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Juliusz Koppelmann, 1947: born about 1904, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franci…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Juliusz Koppelmann, born about 1904 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1904, and the two are 0 years apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1947 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 386, image 305, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 24–32 — April 1941 (and a May continuation sheet)
  He left Japan for Shanghai on the Shanghai Maru, from Nagasaki, late April 1941 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of refugees who left Japan for Shanghai, April 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Kopelman Juljusz". (Shanghai Maru, Nagasaki, late April 1941, Shanghai.)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 31 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 31 March 1946, lists Julius Koppelmann: born 1903 at Broszniow, a merchant, arrived in 1941 from Vilnius; the year and the town agree with the 1940 Vilna refugee list (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• Shanghai Ledger, page 125 (left): entries 994-1001, registered 23-28 April 1941: Wahrhaftig… — on Harbin-consulate passports), Birenbaum Mordka (b. 15 Jan 1908 Piotrkow). Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register
• Shanghai Ledger, page 125 (right): entries 994-1001, registered 23-28 April 1941: Wahrhafti… — on Harbin-consulate passports), Birenbaum Mordka (b. 15 Jan 1908 Piotrkow). Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register

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