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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 7784, Ichcok Rozen, born 1912 at Warszawa, who had come from Warszawa; 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…
  Entry 72 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: the name Chaim is handwritten; relatives abroad: an uncle, Szlama Fridman, Kfar Hasidim, Haifa; a cousin, Mirjot Fajner, 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…
  Entry 144 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 29, born at Warsaw, a clerk, who arrived in Japan on 25 January 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 1492); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: 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)
• HaMashkif, 18 and 19 September 1941, and HaBoker, 25 September 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  In September 1941 Icchok Rozen and his brother Chaim 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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