Bulajewski Borys

Bulajewski Borys received transit visa no. 1696 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records electrician, aged 26.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

26

Occupation

Electrician

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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 477, Borys Bułajewski, born 1914 at Warszawa, who came 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 20 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 27, born at Warsaw, a worker, Polish.
• 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 1221) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Bulajewski Borys, ELECTRICIAN, born 17 March 1914 Warsaw; 561 Point Road; passport B-131 (Ser. III 1663) issued by the Shanghai consulate 6 October 1941.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR33-44 fi… — “List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai and Harbin in the month of May 1941”, compiled by the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
  Named in the Kobe committee's list of persons who left Japan for Shanghai and Harbin in the month of May 1941 (JDC Archives). Borys Bulajewski sailed from Kobe for Shanghai on 24 May 1941 aboard the Kamakura Maru, entered here as 'Bulajeski'. A worker of twenty-seven from Warsaw, on the Vilna relief list and later registered with the Polish consulate at Shanghai.
• LitvakSIG, All Lithuania Database — Vilnius Household Registers, 1931–1939: Bulajewski, Borys, son of Mejlach and Szyfra, born 17 March 1914; a 'visitor' at Wielka Stefanska 6, apartment 14, Vilnius, registered 7 October 1939, previously…
  The Vilnius household register of 1931–1939, indexed by LitvakSIG in its All Lithuania Database, has Bulajewski, Borys, son of Mejlach and Szyfra, born 17 March 1914, registered as a visitor at Wielka Stefanska 6 on 7 October 1939, previously at Warsaw, and moved to Stefanska 10 on 18 December 1939 (Lithuanian Central State Archive, fond 64, inventory 6, file 10662, page 59). The birth date is the one the Shanghai consular ledger gives for him. A Vilna refugee registration of 1939 is a record from the route, the name occurs once on the register, and place and date fit: taken as his under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026. Read on 21 September 2026; credit Lithuanian State Archive and LitvakSIG.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 21 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 21 March 1946, lists Borys Bulajewski: born 1914 at Warsaw, an electro-techn, arrived in 1941 from Poland; the year and the town agree with the 1940 Vilna refugee list, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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