Jankel Reznik

Jankel Reznik received transit visa no. 81 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records mech engineer, aged 52.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

52

Occupation

Mech Engineer

The journey

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

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…
  4761, Lodz, 1888, from Warszawa
• 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…
  267; 53; Rozyszcze; Engineer; Polish; sister Rachil Dawid Isod Buenos Aires, cousin Max Rotman c/o Richard Abramovitz 342 W 89 str New York, cousin Mawin Ritter 1651 W Chicago Ave Chicago
• 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 1187); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Reznik Jankiel, ENGINEER (inzynier), born 1 August 1888 Rozyszcze, married; 1248/8 Rue Lafayette; Tokyo-issued passport of 5 September 1941 (Ser. III 2108) on a British Legation Kaunas certificate of 12 December 1939 (R-41).