Izrael-Symcha Goldman

Izrael-Symcha Goldman received transit visa no. 871 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records bacteriologist, aged 23.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

23

Occupation

Bacteriologist

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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…
  97; age 24; b. Nicklan; bacteriol.; Aichstein 2920 West 27 str Coney Island New York
• 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 1261); the register line's repaired reading and the ledger agree exactly — matched on the repaired register name, approved under the owner's review of 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Goldman Izrael Symcha, BACTERIOLOGIST, born 20 February 1917 Nieklon, single; Tokyo-issued passport of 15 September 1941 (Ser. III) on a birth certificate of 1935 and a Polish citizenship certificate.