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.

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.

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…
  #629, age 42, b. Szadek, agronom
• 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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.
• A document held in the archive's files
• 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…