Salomon Szlosser

Salomon Szlosser received transit visa no. 876 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 45.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

45

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Rachela (32), daughter Rita (10)

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Rachela — wife, aged 32
• Rita — daughter, aged 10

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

• 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…
  8168, Peczenisyn, 1899, Mysiowice
• 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…
  223-225, wife and daughter, 1894 Peczenizyn, 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…
  no.601, age 47, b. Peczenizyn, merchant, arr 14.2 from Vilno