Aron Feldman

Aron Feldman received transit visa no. 758 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 26.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

26

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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…
  #132/153, age 27, b. Janow, clerk, arr 3.2
• hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: FELDMAN Aron
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 24: FELDMAN Aron (file number lost in the scan). Match: register No.758 'Aron Feldman', and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree. NOTE: the inde
• 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 1782) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Feldman Aron, commercial employee, born 1914 Janow; 1002D Avenue Joffre; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (F-66, 6 December 1941).
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 3 Feb 1941 (line 758)