Rubin Lifsyc

Rubin Lifsyc received transit visa no. 1817 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records student, aged 20.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Lithuanien

Age in 1940

20

Occupation

Student

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

son of #1934

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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…
  #429, 21, b. Warsaw, from Vilno
• 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 1220); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026
• 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 1817)
• Oral history interview with Maria Klein Lifszyc — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 26232. Catalogue: born Jun 25 1925, Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland); born Warsaw 25 Jun 1925; parents Joseph and Estera Lifszyc; Bluman: No.…
  USC Shoah Foundation VHA interview 26232: Maria Klein Lifszyc — her brother Rubin — gave a testimony (catalogue: born Jun 25 1925, Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)); born Warsaw 25 Jun 1925; parents Joseph and Estera Lifszyc; Bluman: No.1818 Maria Liwszyc, student, 15, and No.1817 Rubin, 20 — the Lifszyc brother and sister of the Shanghai dossier (C-10452 fr.627, entries 24-25)
• Library and Archives Canada, Tadeusz Romer fonds, MG 31 D 68, reel C-10452, frame 627, via Canadiana Heritage — the same list, page 3, entries 23-32 (Lewkowicz, Lifszyc brother and sister, Mann, Marber, Matecka, Merzel, Pikielny, Pinus,…
  On the Polish Embassy's list of 41 Polish refugees (Romer's Shanghai-period papers) (Romer fonds, reel C-10452, frame 627, entry 24): LIFSZYC Rubin, student, born 1920; passport 9991/38 Warsaw 5.12.1938; no visa — 'vide poz. 17 as Klok' (wishes to leave with the Bund group for London, or Canada/USA, failing that South Africa); also on the Kamakura Maru evacuation list of 16 Aug 1942 (evacuees 84-85)