Rozensztrauch Maks

Rozensztrauch Maks received transit visa no. 1254 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 28.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

28

Occupation

Lawyer

The journey

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

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…
  4589, Warszawa, 1912, from Warszawa
• 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 Warsaw; uncle Natan Szulc Durazno 989 Montevideo; uncle L.Kawer 1297 EnJ Ave Brooklyn USA; uncle Jankiel Szulc Costa Rica
• 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.577, age 29, b. Warsaw, Lawyer, arr 13.2 from Vilno
• hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Maks Rozensztrauch, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Maks Rozensztrauch, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.1254 'ozensztrauch Maks' records age 28; the manifest gives born 1913, arriving 19
• M/S Heian Maru manifest, sheet 21 — List or Manifest of Alien Passengers, sailed Yokohama 27 May 1941, arrived Seattle 7 June 1941, all thirty admitted (NARA M1383, roll 262, Seattle Passenger Lists; retrieved with the owner signed in).…
  M/S Heian Maru, Yokohama 27 May - Seattle 7 June 1941; line 27: 28, lawyer, b. Warsaw
• 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 1254)
• S.S. Heian Maru, Yokohama to Vancouver, Canada, 27 May 1941 — list of refugee passengers, HICEM meeting half the cost of the passages. JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00053, item 00766. One sheet carries four sailings;…
  Listed as "ROZENSZTRAUCH Maks" among the refugee passengers who left Yokohama to Vancouver on the Heian Maru. The compiled register independently records this line as bound for Canada — which is where this ship was going. The two agree without being derived from one another.