Hersz Szpiro

Hersz Szpiro received transit visa no. 799 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. Aged 27 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

27

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 5326, Hersz Szpiro, born 1913 at Warsaw, who had come from Warsaw; the year agrees with the register's age and Warsaw agrees with the archive's other 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.

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