Milrod Izrael

Milrod Izrael received transit visa no. 1561 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 9 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Clerk

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Lydia Ruth; brother of #2115

The journey

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

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…
  7106; arsz-•a 1911 Lodzn
• 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…
  1911 Warszawa; Polish; uncle-Lewis Paul NY; uncle-Korenberg Moris NY
• 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…
  30, Warsaw, Clerk, 14.2
• 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…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1078) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Milrod Izrael, textile worker (manipulant tekstylny), born 1 January 1911 Warsaw, single; 54 Chusan Road, house 17; Tokyo-issued passport of 19 June 1941 (Ser. II 004081) on a Lodz passport; 'may not be extended or exchanged without the Embassy in Tokyo'.
• 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 1561)
• Oral history interview with Jerry Milrod (born Izrael Milrod) — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 52388. Catalogue: born Jan 1 1911, Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland); born Warsaw 1 Jan 1911; Bluman: No.1561 Milrod Izrael, cle…
  USC Shoah Foundation VHA interview 52388: Jerry Milrod (born Izrael Milrod) — the interviewee himself — gave a testimony (catalogue: born Jan 1 1911, Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)); born Warsaw 1 Jan 1911; Bluman: No.1561 Milrod Izrael, clerk, 29, wife Lydia Ruth, brother of No.2115; the Shanghai ledger (entry 1078) has Milrod Izrael born 1 Jan 1911 Warsaw — the same date
• Shanghai Ledger, page 135 (left): entries 1074-1081, registered 26 July 1941: Schaja Raisa (b. 25 Dec 1900 Tomsk), Swieca Anatol (advocate, Warsaw), Rozenbaum Teodor (merchant, b. 1906 Warsaw), Choczner Joel-Dawid (merchant, b. 19 Feb 19…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 135 (right): entries 1074-1081, registered 26 July 1941: Schaja Raisa (b. 25 Dec 1900 Tomsk), Swieca Anatol (advocate, Warsaw), Rozenbaum Teodor (merchant, b. 1906 Warsaw), Choczner Joel-Dawid (merchant, b. 19 Feb 1…
• Catalogue still for the oral history of Jerry Milrod (born Izrael Milrod) — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 52388 (the archive's public catalogue frame, 352x240); links to the testimony at vha.usc.edu/testimony/52388