Szyja Chaim Kanal

Szyja Chaim Kanal received transit visa no. 875 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 35.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

35

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 1275) — found on reading the ledger page itself — the ledger reads: Kanal Szyja Chaim, office clerk, born 3 May 1905 Inowlodz, married; registered 10 November 1941; passport K-144 issued by the Shanghai consulate 4 November 1941 — found on reading the page.
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, their lists and sailings, Shanghai 1945–1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  The Agudath Israel organisation of refugees from Poland in Shanghai listed him among its members on 24 December 1945: Szyja Chaim Kanal, born in 1905 in Inowlodz, Polish passport No. K-144/2/31/41 issued in Shanghai on 5 November 1941. The UNRRA China Office kept the list with its 1946 registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office 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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad has, at entry 136, Szyja Chaim Kanal, aged 36, born at Inowlodz, a clerk. Sugihara's ledger lost the first letter of his given name; the list has it in full.
• 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 3218, Szyja Chaim Kanal, born in 1905 at Warszawa.

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