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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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.