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…
  Entry 132 (also numbered 153) of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 27, born at Janow, a clerk, who arrived in Japan on 3 February 1941.
• 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 — the ledger reads: 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)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 28 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 28 March 1946, lists Aron Feldmann: born 1914, a merchant, arrived in 1941 from Vilno by way of Kobe; the year agrees with the age the register gives, the name occurs once on the register, and an arrival in Shanghai in 1941 from Lithuania is the Sugihara route itself, so the archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Aron Feldman, born in 1914, of Janów, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and the town agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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