Kulik Boruch

Kulik Boruch received transit visa no. 1259 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records translator, aged 31.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

31

Occupation

Translator

The journey

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

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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 2695, Boruch Kulik, born 1909 at Warszawa, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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…
  Entry 170 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 32, born at Warsaw, a translator; relatives abroad: a friend, N. Haber, Paterson, New Jersey.
• 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 1202) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Kulik Boruch, TRANSLATOR (tlumacz), born 25 April 1909 Warsaw, single; registered 3 October 1941; 664 Avenue Joffre; Tokyo-issued passport of 4 September 1941 (Ser. III 2115) on a British Legation Kaunas certificate of 1 May 1940 (K-368).
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 11 April 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 11 April 1946, lists Boruch Kulik: born 1909 at Warsaw, an interpreter, arrived in 1941 from Vilnius; the year and the town agree with the 1940 Vilna refugee list, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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