Rudolf Stern

Rudolf Stern received transit visa no. 34 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 27 July 1940. Aged 19 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

19

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #38

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 Kasima Maru on 6 July 1941, bound for Australia (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "″ Rudolf". (Kasima Maru, Kobe, 6 July 1941, destination Australia.)

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