Rab Moszko

Rab Moszko received transit visa no. 1516 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 21.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

21

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

Where this comes from

• Haaretz, 2 February 1942, and HaTzofe, 3 February 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  In February 1942 Moszko Rab was among the immigrants on their way from India to the Land of Israel listed by HaTzofe (3 February 1942) (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press). The archive counts this as a corroboration under its rule of 19 September 2026: the list is a record of the Sugihara route itself, the Jewish Agency's own roll of the Kobe refugees sent on through Bombay; the full name occurs once on the register; and India in the winter of 1941–42 is where that road ran. No second personal fact has yet been found.
• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register lists Moszko Alter Rab, aged 21, born at Wojslawice, a merchant, who reached Japan from Kovno on 13 February 1941.

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