Rubinsztejn Gilel

Rubinsztejn Gilel received transit visa no. 1907 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 40.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnish

Age in 1940

40

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

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

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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1900; relatives abroad: a sister, Rochla Shapiro, 4818 Skillman Avenue, Long Island City, New York.
• 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 585 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 41, born at Sidra, a merchant, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 13 February 1941.
• 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 1907)
• 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 I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  He left Kobe on the "His M." (probably the Hie Maru) on 18 July 1941, bound for Canada (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Rubinsztejn Gilel — Polish — Kobe — Canada". ("His M." (probably the Hie Maru), Kobe, 18 July 1941, destination Canada.)
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Hilel Rubenstein, born in 1900, a merchant of Sidra, who was in Wilno during the war; the year, the town and his trade agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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