Benjamin Sztaizel

Benjamin Sztaizel received transit visa no. 815 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records student, aged 26.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

26

Occupation

Student

The journey

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

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 5119, Benjamin Sztyzel, born 1915 at Będzin, who had come from Będzin; the year agrees with the register's age and Będzin agrees with the archive's other records.
• 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…
  Entry 305 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 26, born at Bedzin, a student; relatives abroad: an aunt, Leon Synay, Calle Cuenza 1391, Buenos Aires.
• 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…
  Benjamin Sztaizel registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai in October 1941 as Beniamin Sztajzel, a student from Będzin, living at 561 Seymour Road. (Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archives, the Shanghai consulate's register, digitised by the Library of Congress.)
• 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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