Wolchajm Boruch

Wolchajm Boruch received transit visa no. 1871 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student, aged 33.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

33

Occupation

Rabbinical Student

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 362 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 33, born at Warsaw, a student; relatives abroad: an uncle, Waloga, 904 7th Avenue, New York.

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