Blumental Mordka

Blumental Mordka received transit visa no. 2100 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 21 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 44.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

44

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 748, Mordchaj Blumental, born 1895, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 28 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 46, born at Staszow, a merchant; relatives abroad: an aunt, Regina Natanblut, 3130 Brighton 6th Street, Brooklyn, New York; a cousin, B. Berkowicz, 6574 Sounders Street, Forest Hills, New York.
• "List of persons arriving on route to New Zealand" — the arrival roster for the sailing from Japan, September 1941: 33 typed names, from Dr George Bluman’s own marked-up cop… — September 1941, not July; he had misread his own handwriting.
  Named on the list of persons arriving on route to New Zealand, sailing from Japan in 1941. The register spells it Blumental.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Mordka Blumental, 1947: born about 1896, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisc…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Mordka Blumental, born about 1896 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the Marine Phoenix. The register's compiled line gives 1896, and the two are 0 years apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Sydney, not Shanghai, so the crossing does not by itself place this person on the route; held as a lead. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 388, image 449, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• Geneteka (Polish Genealogical Society) — the Jewish birth registers of Staszów and Połaniec, indexed from the synagogue books
  The Jewish birth register of Staszów for 1895, indexed in Geneteka by the Polish Genealogical Society from the synagogue's book, records a Mordka Blumental. The refugee lists give Staszów as his birthplace and an age that puts his birth in 1895, so the town and the year agree with the entry, not the name alone. Read in Geneteka's index, October 2026.

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