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.

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
  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