Rozen Chaim Lejzor

Rozen Chaim Lejzor received transit visa no. 1627 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records office worker, aged 25.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

25

Occupation

Office Worker

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #1628

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 7191, Chaim Lejzer Rozen, born 1915 at Warszawa, who had come from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 1491); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Rozen Chaim Lejzor, commercial employee, born 1915 Warsaw; 936/15 East Seward Road, with his brother Icchok; Tokyo-issued passport of 2 December 1941.
• 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 Jan 1941 (line 1627)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Joel Lejzor Rozen, 1946: born about 1920, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francis…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Joel Lejzor Rozen, born about 1920 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946. The register's compiled line gives 1915. A lead only: the register carries 2 lines of this name, and the index entry cannot be assigned to one of them without the manifest sheet.
• HaMashkif, 18 and 19 September 1941, and HaBoker, 25 September 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  In September 1941 Chaim Lejzor Rozen and his brother Icchok sent a greeting from Japan to their uncle Shlomo Frydman at Kfar Hasidim, near Haifa; it was printed in HaMashkif on 18 September 1941 and in HaBoker on 25 September (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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