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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1908 at Piotrkow Trybunalski; relatives abroad: an aunt, Kressi, New York; Hilda Silverzweig, 867 East 176th Street, Bronx, New York.
• 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 49 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 33, born at Piotrkow, a decorator, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 14 February 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 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 — the ledger reads: 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.
• 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. 24–32 — April 1941 (and a May continuation sheet)
  He left Japan for Shanghai on the Kobe Maru, from Kobe, 5 April 1941 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of refugees who left Japan for Shanghai, April 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Birenbaum Mordcha". (Kobe Maru, Kobe, 5 April 1941, Shanghai.)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 21 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 21 March 1946, lists Mordka Birenbaum: born 1908 at Piotrkow, an upholsterer, arrived in 1941 from Lodz by way of Siberia; the year and the town agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• 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 Mordchai Birnbaum, born in 1908, of Łódź, who was in Lithuania during the war; the year and the town agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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