Samuel Kupinski received transit visa no. 873 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records farmer, aged 34.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
34
Occupation
Farmer
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
children (Sara (9), Hirsz (8))
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Canada.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Sara — child, aged 9
Hirsz — child, aged 8
The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.
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… 1906 Warszawa; Polish
The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe… #397, 35, b. Warsaw, from Vilno
hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: KUPINSKI Samuel JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 164: KUPINSKI Samuel, file no. 7063. Match: register No.873 'amuel Kupinski' (repaired: Samuel Kupinski), and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agr