Rot Hirsz

Rot Hirsz received transit visa no. 1825 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records journalist, aged 28.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Lithuanien

Age in 1940

28

Occupation

Journalist

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Anneliese

The journey

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

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 a Hirsz Rotesz at entry 4609, born 1913 at Warsaw, who had come from Warsaw. It is shown as a lead, not as this person: spelled Rotesz on the list, Rot on the register; the year (1913) agrees, but the surname is not the same.
• 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 566 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 28, born at Lublin, a journalist, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 2 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 1490); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Rot Hirsz, journalist, Jewish, born 1912 Lublin, single; registered 13 December 1941; 832c Avenue Joffre; Tokyo-issued passport of 2 December 1941, valid to 8 December 1943.
• 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 2 Feb 1941 (line 1825)
• List of persons processed by the American Joint Distribution Committee's migration department, Shanghai, 1–30 April 1946 (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48686)
  The American Joint Distribution Committee's migration department in Shanghai processed Hirsz Rot for emigration in April 1946, according to its list for that month, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The name occurs once on the register, and the register already records this line's arrival in Shanghai.

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