Rotstein Moszek

Rotstein Moszek received transit visa no. 1356 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records timber specialist, aged 27.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

27

Occupation

Timber Specialist

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Saba (29)

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Saba — wife, aged 29

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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…
  7030; Nasielsk i9i; asielsk
• 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…
  232, 1913 Nasielsk; uncle Beckerman New York, cousin Helen Dr. Los Angeles
• 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.569, age 28, b. Nasielsk, timber spec., from Vilno
• 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 24 Feb 1941 (line 1356)