Kruk Sima-Binem

Kruk Sima-Binem received transit visa no. 1912 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records barber, aged 27.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

27

Occupation

Barber

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #1913

The journey

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

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 1313); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Kruk Sima Binem, HAIRDRESSER (fryzjer), born 2 October 1912 Lipno, married — wife ROZA, born 30 December 1918 Bedzin (the register's No.1913); Tokyo-issued passport of 13 September 1941 (Ser. III 2235) on British Legation Kaunas certificates of 16 August 1940 (K-443 his, K-449 hers).
• JDC Archives, New York — Shanghai Migration Files, box index (AR 33/44, file 00014): the alphabetical index to the JDC's Shanghai emigration case files, 1946-1950 — some 2,640 case files covering about 5,400 persons, each family under on…
  JDC Shanghai Migration Files, case file no. 6109 — an emigration case file opened for the family in Shanghai after the war; the file itself can be requested from the JDC Archives (names closely match; approved under the owner's standing review)
• 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 25 Feb 1941 (line 1912)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Symcha Binem Kruk, 1948: born about 1913, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francis…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Symcha Binem Kruk, born about 1913 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1948 on the President Cleveland. The register's compiled line gives 1913, and the two are 0 years apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1948 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 396, image 772, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 11 April 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 11 April 1946, lists Simcha Binem Kruk: born 1912 at Lino, arrived in 1941 from Warsaw; the year agrees with the age the register gives, but the list does not place this arrival on the Lithuanian road (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register lists Sima-Binem Kruk, aged 29, born at Lipno, a barber, who reached Japan from Kovno on 13 February 1941, with his wife Roza, aged 23, born at Bedzin, on the next line. Sugihara's ledger lost the first letter of his given name; the register has it in full.
• 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 Binem Szyma Kruk, born in 1912, of Warsaw, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and both his given names agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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