Bach Rudolf

Bach Rudolf received transit visa no. 1887 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. Aged 39 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

checoslov.

Age in 1940

39

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Catherine (37)

The journey

Registered in Kobe for Australia.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Catherine — wife, aged 37

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

Where this comes from

• 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 299); the register's damaged 'hach udolf' read against the ledger's Bach, Adolf Dawid — the given name differs by its first letter in the two sources — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026