Ryszard Driller

Ryszard Driller received transit visa no. 23 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 26 July 1940. The register records doctor, aged 38.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

38

Occupation

Doctor

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #26

The journey

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

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…
  No.29, age 39, b. Cracow
• Yad Vashem names record — Ryszard Driller
  recorded on a list of residents; fate not stated. Matched on the name alone — the register gives no birth year to check it against
• 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 1174); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Driller Dr Ryszard, industrialist, born 1902 Krakow; Krakow passport of May 1939 extended by the British Legation in Kaunas 17 July 1940 and by the Polish Embassy in Tokyo 30 May 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 25 Jan 1941 (line 23)