Mejloch Kaplan

Mejloch Kaplan received transit visa no. 886 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 33.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

33

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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…
  35, b. Warsaw, merchant, arr. 14.2, from Kovno
• 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 1209) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Kaplan Mejloch, trader, born 1906 Warsaw; 50 Chusan Road; Warsaw passport of 14 April 1933 extended 1938-39, by the British Legation in Kaunas 4 December 1939 (K-637) and 17 May 1940, and by the Embassy in Tokyo 27 March 1941.