Samuel Nebenzahl

Samuel Nebenzahl received transit visa no. 905 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records engineer, aged 38.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

38

Occupation

Engineer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Franciszka (36), son Ludwik (6)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Franciszka — wife, aged 36
• Ludwik — son, aged 6

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

• 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…
  220, 39, Krakow, clerk, Polish; Nathan Driller 2935 Holland Ave New York
• 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 1164); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Nebenzahl Samuel, ENGINEER, born 1902 Krakow, married — wife FRANCISZKA born 21 October 1904 Krakow, added to his passport by the Embassy in Tokyo 25 April 1941; son LUDWIK born 1934; 93/12a Rue Say Zoong c/o Krebs; Krakow passport of 3 June 1939 extended by the Embassy in Tokyo 25 June 1941.