Szymon Goldberg

Visa no. 839 · Kaunas, 2 August 1940

Szymon Goldberg received transit visa no. 839 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 50.

What the register records

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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 1661, Szymon Goldberg, born 1906 at Warszawa, who came from Warszawa; the year, 1906, is sixteen years later than the register's compiled age (50 in 1940) suggests, so the archive shows the entry as a lead, not as an identification.
La-karov ve-la-rachok, 28 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 28 March 1946, lists Morduch Szmujlo Goldberg: born 1890 at Pinsk, a merchant, arrived in 1941 from Vilnius; the year and the trade agree with the 1940 Vilna refugee list (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
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.