Grinberg Rachmil

Grinberg Rachmil received transit visa no. 1359 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 23.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

23

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

What is known

This is a Polish certificate (Zaswiadczenie/Certificat) issued by the Legation of Poland in Kaunas (Legation de Pologne a Kaunas) on 31 July 1940, certifying that Rachmil Grinberg, born 8 November 1916 in Luck, was a Polish citizen. The document was issued in lieu of a passport to enable travel abroad, consistent with the wave of Polish-Jewish refugees in Kaunas during the summer of 1940.

This is a certificate (Zaswiadczenie/Certificat) issued by the Polish Legation in Kaunas (Kowno), Lithuania, on 31 July 1940, in lieu of a passport, authorizing travel abroad. It certifies that Rachmil Grinberg, born 8 November 1916 in Luck, single, is a Polish citizen. The document bears the seal of His Britannic Majesty's Legation in Lithuania, indicating the British Consul was charged with protection of Polish interests.

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…
  1734, Luck, b.1916, from Luck
• S.S. Manila Maru, Kobe to South Africa, 29 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; this is…
  Listed as "GRINBERG Rachmil" among the refugee passengers who left Kobe to South Africa on the Manila Maru. The compiled register gives Palestine for this line, which is not where this sailing was bound. The identification rests on the name alone and is offered as a possibility, not a finding.
• A document held in the archive's files
• A document held in the archive's files