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.

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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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 7106, Izrael Milrod, born 1911 at Warszawa, who had come from Lodz; 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 Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1911 at Warszawa, Polish; relatives abroad: an uncle, Lewis Paul, New York; an uncle, Moris Korenberg, New York.
• 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: aged 30, born at Warsaw, a clerk, who arrived in Japan on 14 February 1941.
• 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 — the ledger reads: 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; Bl… — the interviewee may be living
  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
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Israel Milrod, 1947: born about 1911, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco).…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Israel Milrod, born about 1911 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the Marine Adder. The register's compiled line gives 1911, and the two are 0 years apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1947 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 391, image 454, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  He left Japan for Shanghai on the Taiyo Maru, sailing from Kobe on 18 July 1941 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of persons who left Japan for Shanghai, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Milred Izrael". (Taiyo Maru, Kobe, 18 July 1941, destination Shanghai.)
• Shanghai Ledger, page 135 (left): entries 1074-1081, registered 26 July 1941: Schaja Raisa (b. 25 Dec 1900 Tomsk… — the last four all lodging at 54 Chusan Road, house 17. Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register
• Shanghai Ledger, page 135 (right): entries 1074-1081, registered 26 July 1941: Schaja Raisa (b. 25 Dec 1900 Toms… — the last four all lodging at 54 Chusan Road, house 17. Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register
• 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; Bl… — the interviewee may be living
• 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

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