Erlich Ruchla
Visa no. 1731 · Kaunas, 14 August 1940
Erlich Ruchla received transit visa no. 1731 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. Aged 31 in 1940.
What the register records
- Nationality as recorded
- Polnisch
- Age in 1940
- 31
- Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
- wife of #1732
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.
Where this comes from
- "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Ruchla Erlich, 1941: born about 1909, 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 Ruchla Erlich, born about 1909 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1909, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. - Manifest of alien passengers, SS Kamakura Maru, sailing from Yokohama March 27th 1941, arrived San Francisco April 10th 1941 (US National Archives, M1410, film 369; read on FamilySearch's copy)
She reached San Francisco on 10 April 1941 on the Kamakura Maru with her husband Aleksander and their daughter, according to the passenger list held by the National Archives (FamilySearch's copy). Her husband's name and their daughter are the family the register's compilers recorded for her. - Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Ruchla Erlich, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
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