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.

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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.

Poselstwo Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Kownie / Legation de Pologne a Kaunas GRINBERG RACHMIL Rok urodzenia 8.XI.1916 Miejsce urodzenia Luck okazal w tutejszym Urzedzie dowody, stwierdzajace, ze jest obywatelem polskim Data 31 lipca 1940

Poselstwo Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Kownie / Legation de Pologne a Kaunas Zaswiadczenie niniejsze zostalo wydane wobec braku ksiazeczek paszportowych i uprawnia do wyjazdu za granice. GRINBERG RACHMIL okazal w tutejszym Urzedzie dowody, stwierdzajace, ze jest obywatelem polskim.

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 1734, Rachmil Grinberg, born 1916 at Łuck, who came from Łuck; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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.
• 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… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  He left Kobe on the Manila Maru on 29 May 1941, bound for South Africa (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Grinberg Rachmil Mojsze". (Manila Maru, Kobe, 29 May 1941.)
• 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 has, at entry 109, Rachmil Mosze Grinberg, aged 25, born at Luck, a clerk. Sugihara's ledger lost the first letter of his given name; the list has it in full.
• The certificate of identity issued by the Polish Legation in Kaunas to Rachmil Grinberg (No. 1359), 31 July 1940, with his photograph — a second copy.

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