Szymon Getreidehendler
Visa no. 800 · Kaunas, 2 August 1940
Szymon Getreidehendler received transit visa no. 800 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records butcher, aged 26.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polnisch Age in 1940 26 Occupation Butcher
The journey Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.
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… 2032; b.Wolbrom 1912 The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…33; 28; b. Wolbrom; butcher; Polish; uncle I.Ber Brops Works A document held in the archive's files
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Szymon Getreidehendler is one of 2,140 people recorded in the surviving register of the transit
visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
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