Rotstein Moszek
Visa no. 1356 · Kaunas, 7 August 1940
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…
The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 7030, Moszek Rotsztejn, born 1913 at Nasielsk, who had come from Nasielsk; 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 232 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1913 at Nasielsk; relatives abroad: an uncle, Beckerman, New York; a cousin, Dr Helen, 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…
Entry 569 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 28, born at Nasielsk, a timber specialist, who travelled from Vilnius. - 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)
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