Mordcha Birenbaum

Mordcha Birenbaum received transit visa no. 297 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records decorator, aged 32.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

32

Occupation

Decorator

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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…
  1908 Piotrkow Tr.; Aunt Kressi New York; Hilda Silverzweig 867 Est 176th st Bronx N.Y.
• 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…
  #49, 33, b. Piotrkow, Decorat., arr 14.2, from Vilno
• 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 14 Feb 1941 (line 297)
• 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 1001) — found on reading the ledger page itself — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Birenbaum Mordka, born 15 January 1908 Piotrkow, married; registered April 1941; 50 Ward Road; passport B-117 issued by the Shanghai consulate itself, valid to 26 April 1942 — found on reading the page.