Soroczkin Boruch

Soroczkin Boruch received transit visa no. 1502 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbi - telshe yeshiva, aged 22.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

22

Occupation

Rabbi - Telshe Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Rachil (20)

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Rachil — wife, aged 20

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

• 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 246 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1918; relatives abroad: a father, Rabbi Soroczkin, Jerusalem.
• 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 612 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 23, a yeshiva student, who travelled from Kaunas.
• 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 25 Feb 1941 (line 1502)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Boruch Soroczkin, 1941: born about 1918, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisc…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Boruch Soroczkin, born about 1918 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1918, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• The 1950 United States census (US National Archives, 1950census.archives.gov)
  In April 1950 the United States census found him in Cleveland, Ohio, aged 33, born in Poland, teaching at a Talmudic college, with his wife Rachel and their children (National Archives, 1950 census, enumeration district 92-935, sheet 14).
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Boruch Soroczkin, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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