Fiszel Chil Szajniak

Fiszel Chil Szajniak received transit visa no. 795 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records agronomist, aged 40.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

40

Occupation

Agronomist

The journey

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

What is known

Listed as number 795 on a Sugihara transit visa list, a Polish national granted transit visa on 2 August 1940.

TRASIT 2/VIII

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 629 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 42, born at Szadek, an agronomist.
• 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 1463) — found on reading the ledger page itself — the ledger reads: Szajniak Hil Fisze (the register's 'Fiszel Chil Szajniak'), FARMER, born 24 August 1899 Szadek, married; 685 Seward Road; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (S-237, 6 December 1941) — found on reading the page.
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, Mizrachi members list and the United Board of Rabbis' birth-data pages, Shanghai 1945–46 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  A list of the members of the Mizrachi Organization of Polish War Refugees in Shanghai, dated 20 December 1945 and kept in the records of UNRRA's China Office, gives his birth as 24 August 1899 in Szadek, and his Polish passport as No. S-237/2/27/41, issued in Shanghai on 6 December 1941. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• The numbered Sugihara visa list, the page of 2 August 1940 carrying Nos. 795 to 865 (among them No. 805, Szaps Jaskolka), photographed beside a ruler.
• Shanghai Ledger, page 183 (left): entries 1459-1466, registered 13 December 1941 on passports issued by the Shanghai consulate itself 3-6 December 1941: Sapockinski Mowsza (student, b. 15 Oct 1923 Suwalki), Sztejnberg Mowsza (b. 1919 Kob…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 183 (right): entries 1459-1466, registered 13 December 1941 on passports issued by the Shanghai consulate itself 3-6 December 1941: Sapockinski Mowsza (student, b. 15 Oct 1923 Suwalki), Sztejnberg Mowsza (b. 1919 Ko…

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