Baruch Klemens

Baruch Klemens received transit visa no. 1550 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 8 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 45.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

45

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Marysia (34), child (Piotr (4))

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Marysia — wife, aged 34
• Piotr — child, aged 4

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

• 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 6 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 47, born at Dzialoszyn, a merchant; relatives abroad: a brother, Zk. Baruch, 2 Pylon Street, Tel Aviv; a cousin, Blume Landau, Hotel Riviera, Rio de Janeiro.
• "List of persons arriving on route to New Zealand" — the arrival roster for the sailing from Japan, September 1941: 33 typed names, from Dr George Bluman’s own marked-up cop… — September 1941, not July; he had misread his own handwriting.
  Named on the list of persons arriving on route to New Zealand, sailing from Japan in 1941. His family note reads 'wife Marysia (34), child (Piotr (4))'. Both are named on this arrival list in their own right.
• Takayoshi Iwata, "Kobe and Jewish Refugees" (神戸とユダヤ難民), Kobe City history bulletin no. 26, March 2017 — English translation published by the City of Kobe
  He crossed from Vladivostok to Tsuruga on the Amakusa Maru with his wife Marysia and their small son, and the family spent February to August 1941 in Kobe, sharing a house at 1-85 Kitano-chō with the Frankel family. (Takayoshi Iwata, 'Kobe and Jewish Refugees', Kobe City history bulletin no. 26 (2017), English translation published by the City of Kobe.)
• 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 742, Baruch Kalman-Klemens, born 1894 at Działoszyn, who came from Łódź, with his wife Maria, born 1906, and a small child; the year agrees with the age the register gives, and the town and his wife with what the archive already holds.

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