Symcha Klapman
Visa no. 20 · Kaunas, 26 July 1940
Symcha Klapman received transit visa no. 20 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 26 July 1940. Aged 25 in 1940.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polnisch Age in 1940 25 The journey Reached Japan.
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… #3198, b.1915, from Plonsk US arrival manifest: Symcha Klopman, Seattle, 1940 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Symcha Klopman, 1940. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.20 'ymcha Klopman' records age 25; the manifest gives born 1916, arriving 1940. Open this entry in the full register →
Symcha Klapman is one of 2,140 people recorded in the surviving register of the transit
visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
The Sugihara Visa Archive · how this was compiled
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