Szmuel Szczedrowicki

Szmuel Szczedrowicki received transit visa no. 974 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records rabbi, aged 32.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

32

Occupation

Rabbi

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Szyfra (35), children Chaim Dawid (11), Bella (8), Tauba (5), Eliezer (3))

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Szyfra — wife, aged 35
• Chaim Dawid — child, aged 11

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 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…
  #633, age 34, b. Bialystok, rabbi, arr. 24.2, from Vilno, no.396
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 24 Feb 1941 (line 974)