Rapoport Izrael

Rapoport Izrael received transit visa no. 1528 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records fur merchant, aged 36.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

36

Occupation

Fur Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #1530, son Janusz (10)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Janusz — son, aged 10

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

• 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 14 Feb 1941 (line 1528)
• M.S. Hie Maru, Kobe 4 May – Yokohama 7 May – Seattle 18 May 1941, sheet 2 of 11 — transcribed for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild by David Rosen
  Hie Maru passenger no. 38; 37y 4m; Fur Merchant; b. Warsaw, Poland; last residence Vilnus, Lithuania; US visa Q.I.V.1840, issued Yokohama, 5-2-1941; to N.Y., N.Y.; joining Uncle, Samuel Finkielstein, 91 Payson Ave. N.Y.; nearest relative left behind: No relative, 8 Tilto, Vilnus
• M.S. Hie Maru, Kobe 4 May – Yokohama 7 May – Seattle 18 May 1941, sheet 2 of 11 — transcribed for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild by David Rosen
  Hie Maru passenger no. 40; 11y 3m; Student; b. Warsaw, Poland; last residence Vilnus, Lithuania; US visa Q.I.V.1842, issued Yokohama, 5-2-1941; to N.Y., N.Y.; joining Granduncle, Samuel Finkielstein, 91 Payson Ave. N.Y.; nearest relative left behind: No relative, 8 Tilto, Vilnus; son of Nos. 1528 and 1530; not separately on the register
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Izrael Rapoport, 1941: born about 1904, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seat…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Izrael Rapoport, born about 1904 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1904, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle 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 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 Izrael Alter Rapoport, aged 37, with Hersz Rapoport, aged 28, a clerk, on the next 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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad has Izrael Alter Rapoport, born at Warszawa. The name occurs only once on Sugihara's list and the list is of refugees at Kobe in 1941, the route his visa took; that is the basis of this attachment.
• 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 4973, Izrael Alter Rapoport, born in 1904 at Warszawa, who came from Warszawa. Ewa Rapoport, born in 1901, is the next entry.
• A ship, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Samuel Siev — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at…
• Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Siew Samuel (Dr.) — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew L…

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