Rizikow Bencjon

Rizikow Bencjon received transit visa no. 1316 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 31.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

31

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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 4770, Bencjon Ryzykow, born 1909 at Kosów Poleski, who had come from Kosów Poleski; the year agrees with the register's age and Kosów Poleski agrees with the archive's other records.
• 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 1909 at Kosow; relatives abroad: an uncle, Icko Neyman, Jersey City, New York; a cousin, D. Shakin, 277 Harrison Avenue, Jersey City.
• 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 591 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 32, born at Kosow, a merchant, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 13 February 1941.
• 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 I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  He left Japan for Shanghai on the Taiyo Maru, sailing from Kobe on 7 July 1941 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of persons who left Japan for Shanghai, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Ryzykow Bencjon". (Taiyo Maru, Kobe, 7 July 1941, destination Shanghai.)
• 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…
  The Polish consulate's Shanghai ledger has Bencjon Ryzykow on page 1104. The name occurs only once on Sugihara's list and the ledger is the register of Polish citizens in Shanghai, where the route of his visa ended; that is the basis of this attachment. Sugihara's ledger writes the name Rizikow; the Shanghai ledger writes Ryzykow.

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