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.

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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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 2496, Szmuel Jelin, born 1914 at Łódź, who came from Łódź; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and the town with what the archive already holds for this line.
• 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 2541, Samuel Jelin, born 1914 at Łódź, who came from Łódź; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and his wife Ruta, also on the register (No. 736), appears close by on the list.
• 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…
  Entry 118 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1914 at Lodz; relatives abroad: a brother-in-law, A. Rosenfeld, 8215 Britan Avenue, 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…
  Entry 225 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 27, born at Lodz, an engineer, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 February 1941.
• 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 — the ledger reads: 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, 3 January 1946: the first page of a letter in Polish signed 'Ruth', to 'Jacek' in America. Word of her family in Poland has reached her through a family friend in New York, and she asks Jacek to do everything he can to obtain p…
  Named as 'Samek' in his wife's letter from Shanghai of 3 January 1946: affidavits had arrived and he was to go to the American consulate the next day; the postscript carries his greetings. The letter carries no surname and is held by the family as Ruth Jelin's. Given by Leah Sills, whose grandmother was Ruth Jelin's sister-in-law.
• 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 Samuel Jelin: born 1914 at Lodz, a textile engineer, arrived in 1941 from Kounas; the year, the town and the trade agree with the 1940 Vilna refugee list, the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• 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…
• Shanghai, 3 January 1946: the first page of a letter in Polish signed 'Ruth', to 'Jacek' in America. Word of her family in Poland has reached her through a family friend in New York, and she asks Jacek to do everything he can to obtain p…
• Shanghai, 3 January 1946: the second page of the same letter. Affidavits have arrived and Samek will go to the American consulate tomorrow; she hopes they too may leave, and that Stenia might reach America. She signs 'Your Ruth', and add…

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