Izrael Rozenblum

Izrael Rozenblum received transit visa no. 1823 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records mechanic, aged 21.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Lithuanien

Age in 1940

21

Occupation

Mechanic

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

cousin of #1822

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for France.

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 an Izrael Rozenblum at entry 4739, born 1905 at Dombrowo, who had come from Dombrowo. It is shown as a lead, not as this person: born 1905 against the register's age of 21, which puts the birth about 1919.
• 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 236 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born in a year written 09, at Grojec; relatives abroad: a brother, E. Rosenblum, Buenos Aires; a sister, M. Rosenblum, Tel Aviv.
• 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 575 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 32, born at Grojec, a mechanic, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 February 1941.
• 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 1136); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Rozenblum Izrael Wolf, mechanic, born 24 June 1919 Grojec, single; registered 20 September 1941; 181 Avenue Dubail, flat 12; Tokyo-issued passport of 30 July 1941 (Ser. II 004166) on a British Legation Kaunas certificate of 17 February 1940 (R-69).
• 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 25 Feb 1941 (line 1823)
• S.S. Manila Maru, Kobe to South Africa, 29 May 1941 — list of refugee passengers, HICEM meeting half the cost of the passages. JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00053, item 00766. One sheet carries four sailings; this is…
  Listed as "ROZENBLUM Izrael" among the refugee passengers who left Kobe to South Africa on the Manila Maru. The compiled register gives France for this line, which is not where this sailing was bound. The identification rests on the name alone and is offered as a possibility, not a finding.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  He left Kobe on the Manila Maru on 29 May 1941, bound for South Africa (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Rozenblum Israel Mordka". (Manila Maru, Kobe, 29 May 1941.)
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, their lists and sailings, Shanghai 1945–1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  By March 1946 the American Joint Distribution Committee's migration department in Shanghai had processed Izrael Rozenblum, of 818/26 Tongshan Road, for Paris, where his contact was Annette Rozenblum. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)

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