Boruch Levin

Boruch Levin received transit visa no. 362 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records student, aged 21.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

21

Occupation

Student

The journey

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

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…
  Entry 187 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 23, born at Warsaw, a student, Polish; relatives abroad: a cousin, S. Habergruetz, 817 West End Avenue, New York; S. Rosen, 13 Filey Avenue, London.
• 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 1210); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 11 April 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 11 April 1946, lists Boruch Lewin: born 1918 at Warsaw, a student, arrived in 1941 from Poland by way of Siberia; the year and the town agree with 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 Boruch Lewin, aged 20, of Warsaw, who was in Wilno during the war; his age and his city agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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