Naum Aramowicz

Naum Aramowicz received transit visa no. 904 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 49.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

49

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

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

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…
  Entry 1 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 49, born at Vilnius (Vilno), a merchant, Polish; relatives abroad: a cousin, L. Ilion Jaggur, 550 Riverside Drive, Apartment 4 J, New York City.
• 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 1296); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Abramowicz Naum, industrialist, born 1892 Wilno, widower; 344 Rue Bourgeat; Tokyo-issued passport of 17 November 1941.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 21 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 21 March 1946, lists Naum Abramowicz: born 1892 at Wilna, an employee, arrived in 1941 from Lodz; the year and the town agree with the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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