Rymer Mojzesz

Rymer Mojzesz received transit visa no. 2089 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 21 August 1940. The register records bookkeeper, aged 30.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

30

Occupation

Bookkeeper

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Mirjam (21)

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Mirjam — wife, aged 21

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 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 23 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 31, born at Warsaw, a bookkeeper, who arrived in Japan on 24 December 1940.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Mojzesz Dawid Rymer, 1941: born about 1910, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franc…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Mojzesz Dawid Rymer, born about 1910 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1910, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS Kamakura Maru, sailing from Yokohama March 27th 1941, arrived San Francisco April 10th 1941 (US National Archives, M1410, film 369; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  He and his wife Mirjam reached San Francisco on 10 April 1941 on the Kamakura Maru from Kobe with American immigration visas issued at Yokohama on 14 March, going to his uncle Charles Rymer in Chicago, according to the passenger list held by the National Archives (FamilySearch's copy).
• 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 Mojsze Dawid Rymer, a merchant born in 1909, of Warsaw, married to Marjem, who was in Wilno during the war; the year, the city and his wife's name agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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