Rudolf Friedlander

Rudolf Friedlander received transit visa no. 151 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records motor mechanic, aged 30.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

30

Occupation

Motor Mechanic

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Canada.

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 1568, Rudolf Friedländer, born 1910 at Katowice, who came from Katowice; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and the town with what the archive already holds for this line.
• 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 31 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 31, born at Katowice, a merchant, German; relatives abroad: Dr Friedlaender, Clinton Club, New York.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 28 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 28 March 1946, lists Rudolf Friedlaender: born 1910 at Kattowitz, a merchant, arrived in 1941 from Lithuania; the year, the town and the trade agree with the 1940 Vilna refugee list, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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