Jelin Samuel

Jelin Samuel received transit visa no. 738 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records engineer, aged 26.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

26

Occupation

Engineer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #736

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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…
  2496; Lodz; 1914; from Lodz
• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  No.118, 1914 Lodz; brother in law A.Rosenfeld 8215 Britan Ave Elmhurst New York
• 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…
  225, 27, b. Lodz, ing., arr. 25.2, from Vilno
• 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 1201); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Jelin Samuel, born 1914 Lodz, married; 455 Rue Lafayette apt 7; Lodz passport of 13 October 1937 extended by the British Legation in Kaunas (J-62) and by the Embassy in Tokyo 22 July 1941 — the consul notes 'the wife was added by the British Legation in Kaunas on 1 August 1940': RUTH, born 1918 Zdunska Wola (the register's No.736).
• Shanghai Ledger, page 150 (left): entries 1194-1201, registered 3 October 1941: Nattel Chaskel (merchant, b. 25 Jun 1886 Wieliczka) and Anna (b. 1889), Rabinowicz Izrael Moszek (merchant, b. 1906 Zakrzowek), Rabbi Szapiro Salomon (b. 18…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 150 (right): entries 1194-1201, registered 3 October 1941: Nattel Chaskel (merchant, b. 25 Jun 1886 Wieliczka) and Anna (b. 1889), Rabinowicz Izrael Moszek (merchant, b. 1906 Zakrzowek), Rabbi Szapiro Salomon (b. 18…