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…
  4609, Warszawa, 1913, from Zduiiska Wola
• 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…
  no.566, age 28, b. Lublin, Journalist, arr 2.2 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 1490); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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)