Szymon Kalisz

Szymon Kalisz received transit visa no. 607 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records rabbi - lublin yeshiva, aged 56.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

56

Occupation

Rabbi - Lublin Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Fajga (56)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Fajga — wife, aged 56

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…
  2998, Warszawa, b.1917, from Warszawa
• Mark Halpern correspondence (9 Aug 2026): Netherlands Legation certificate, Tokyo, 18 March 1941 — Minister J.C. Pabst certifies that 74 named persons of Polish nationality "do not need a Netherlands visa in order to proceed to the Nethe…
  Amakusa Maru 74 — Netherlands Legation certificate (Tokyo, 18 Mar 1941), line 45. Cross-referenced by Mark Halpern, researcher (Aug 2026); archive pass concurs.
• 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 1519); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Kalisz Szymon, RABBI, born 15 October 1917 Warsaw, single; 35 Moulmein Road; registered 14 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (K-163, 4 December 1941).
• JDC Archives, New York — Shanghai Migration Files, box index (AR 33/44, file 00014): the alphabetical index to the JDC's Shanghai emigration case files, 1946-1950 — some 2,640 case files covering about 5,400 persons, each family under on…
  JDC Shanghai Migration Files, case file no. 7999 — an emigration case file opened for the family in Shanghai after the war; the file itself can be requested from the JDC Archives (names closely match; approved under the owner's standing review)
• The list of seventy-four — Netherlands Legation, Tokyo, 18 March 1941. On the Legation's letterhead (Gezantschap der Nederlanden), certifying 'that the undermentioned persons all of Polish nationality do not need a Netherlands visa in or…
  Named at position 45 of seventy-four on the Netherlands Legation's certificate of 18 March 1941 — the list of the people who reached Tsuruga on Sugihara's transit visas without a Curaçao endorsement, were refused permission to land, and whose ship was turned back towards Vladivostok. The Legation typed the name as "Kalisz Szymon". A pencilled note beside it gives this register number, which is how the two records are joined.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Szymon Szulim Kalisz, 1947: born about 1884, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Fran…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Szymon Szulim Kalisz, born about 1884 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1884, and the two are 0 years apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1947 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 387, image 762, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.