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… 246, 1918; 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… no.612, age 23, Yeshiva, from Kovno