Rotenberg Josef

Rotenberg Josef received transit visa no. 1701 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records teacher, aged 42.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

42

Occupation

Teacher

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Mexico.

Where this comes from

• 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 567 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 43, born at Lubartow, a teacher, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 3 February 1941.
• JDC Shanghai migration file: ROTENBERG Josef
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 109: ROTENBERG Josef, file no. 2885. Match: register No.1701 'otenberg Josef' (repaired: Rotenberg Josef), and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts ag
• 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 1314); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Rotenberg Josef, TEACHER, born 11 June 1898 Lubartow, married; registered 26 November 1941; 805/19 Seward Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 10 September 1941 (Ser. III) on a British Legation Kaunas certificate of 26 July 1940 (R-157).
• JDC Archives, New York — Shanghai Migration Files, box index (AR 33/44, file 00014): the alphabetical index to the JDC's Shanghai emigration case files, 1946-1950 — some 2,640 case files covering about 5,400 persons, each family under on…
  JDC Shanghai Migration Files, case file no. 2885 — an emigration case file opened for the family in Shanghai after the war; the file itself can be requested from the JDC Archives
• 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 3 Feb 1941 (line 1701)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Josef Rotenberg, 1947: born about 1899, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Josef Rotenberg, born about 1899 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the General W. H. Gordon. The register's compiled line gives 1898, and the two are 1 year apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1947 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 387, image 534, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.

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