Rubinsztein Abram

Rubinsztein Abram received transit visa no. 1520 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records leathermaker, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Leathermaker

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #1523

The journey

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

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 7825, Abraham Rubinsztejn, born 1911 at Warszawa, who had come from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 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 584 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 30, born at Warsaw, a leather maker, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 3 February 1941.
• 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 3 Feb 1941 (line 1520)
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, their lists and sailings, Shanghai 1945–1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  By March 1946 the American Joint Distribution Committee's migration department in Shanghai had processed Abram Rubinsztein, of 772/9 Ward Road, for Melbourne. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  The Polish consulate's Shanghai ledger has Abraham Rubinsztejn on page 1165, and his brother Daniel on the next page.

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