Ulrych Boruch

Ulrych Boruch received transit visa no. 1675 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 32.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

32

Occupation

Clerk

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Chaja Tauba

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for South America.

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…
  8171, Warszawa, 1912, 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…
  #17, age 35, Warsaw, clerk, Polish; cousins ...Herz 30 W 59 str NY, ...Barbasz ...Tel Aviv
• Mark Halpern correspondence (9 Aug 2026): Netherlands Legation certificate, Tokyo, 18 March 1941 — Minister J.C. Pabst certifies that 74 named persons of Polish nationality "do not need a Netherlands visa in order to proceed to the Nethe…
  Amakusa Maru 74 — Netherlands Legation certificate (Tokyo, 18 Mar 1941), line 16. Cross-referenced by Mark Halpern, researcher (Aug 2026); archive pass concurs.
• 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 996); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Ulrych Boruch, born 16 June 1908 Warsaw, single; registered 26 April 1941; passport U-7 issued by the Shanghai consulate itself, valid to 23 April 1942.
• The list of seventy-four — Netherlands Legation, Tokyo, 18 March 1941. On the Legation's letterhead (Gezantschap der Nederlanden), certifying 'that the undermentioned persons all of Polish nationality do not need a Netherlands visa in or…
  Named at position 16 of seventy-four on the Netherlands Legation's certificate of 18 March 1941 — the list of the people who reached Tsuruga on Sugihara's transit visas without a Curaçao endorsement, were refused permission to land, and whose ship was turned back towards Vladivostok. The Legation typed the name as "Ulrych Baruch". A pencilled note beside it gives this register number, which is how the two records are joined.