Elelman-Igiel Rachela

Elelman-Igiel Rachela received transit visa no. 1623 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records engineer, aged 35.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

35

Occupation

Engineer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #1622

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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…
  #124/140, age 37, b. Warsaw
• 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 25 Feb 1941 (line 1623)
• 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 1178) — found on reading the ledger page itself — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Elelman-Igiel Rachela, born 28 September 1904 Warsaw — named as wife on her husband Gustaw's Shanghai entry 1178, with their son Robert Wladyslaw, born 1940 Wilno; c/o Mikulicki, 455 Rue Lafayette.