Ruwim Sulfrid

Ruwim Sulfrid received transit visa no. 217 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records clerk, aged 41.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

41

Occupation

Clerk

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #215

The journey

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

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 607 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 42, born at Lublin, a clerk, who travelled from Kaunas; listed with Matylda, 37.
• 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 Taiyo Maru on 18 July 1941, bound for Burma (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Szulfried Rubin, ″ Matylda". (Taiyo Maru, Kobe, 18 July 1941, destination Burma.)
• 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 has Ruwin Szulfrid, born in 1899 at Lublin, with his wife. Sugihara's ledger writes the name Sulfrid; the list writes Szulfrid.

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