Rozanski Szloma

Rozanski Szloma received transit visa no. 1045 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records journalist, aged 32.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

32

Occupation

Journalist

The journey

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

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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1908 at Bialystok; relatives abroad: a sister, Gisry Hana, Lorochow 6a, Tel Aviv.
• 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…
  Entry 570 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 33, born at Bialystok, a journalist, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 13 February 1941.
• 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 1045)
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  He left Kobe on the Fusimi Maru on 21 May 1941, bound for Bombay on the way to Palestine (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Rozanski Szloma". (Fusimi Maru, Kobe, 21 May 1941.)

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