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…
  477, Warszawa, b.1914, 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…
  20; 27; b. Warsaw; 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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 file 53 — “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 Comm…
  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.