Rozen Icchok

Rozen Icchok received transit visa no. 1628 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 28.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

28

Occupation

Clerk

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #1627

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…
  7784, Warszawa, b.1912, from Warszawa
• 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…
  72; Chaim (handwritten); uncle Szlama Fridman Kfar Hasidim Haifa; cousin Mirjot Fajner 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…
  No.144, age 29, b. Warsaw, Clerk, arr. 25.1.
• 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 1492); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Rozen Icchok, born 1912 Warsaw; 936/15 East Seward Road, with his brother Chaim Lejzor; 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 1628)