Ryzowy Pinches

Ryzowy Pinches received transit visa no. 1047 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records chemist, aged 28.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

28

Occupation

Chemist

The journey

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

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…
  1912 Zuromin; uncle M.Crinberg Newark NY Schuyler Ave 50; uncle Louis Goldmeyer 2 Re Glelon Amsterdam NY
• 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…
  no.590, age 29, b. Zuromin, chemical, arr 14.2 from Vilno
• 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 1063); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Ryzowy Pinches, born 29 June 1912 Zuromin, single; registered 2 July 1941; 79 Route Tenant de la Tour apt 3; passport R-77 issued by the Shanghai consulate 1 July 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 14 Feb 1941 (line 1047)