Jozef Bach

Jozef Bach received transit visa no. 401 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records clerk, aged 22.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

22

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 7338, Jozef Bach, born 1918 at Warszawa, who had come from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 8 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1918 at Warszawa, Polish; relatives abroad: an uncle, Shone Bach, Baltimore, USA.
• 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 17 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 23, born at Warszawa, a clerk, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 February 1941.
• 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 1295) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Bach Josef, private clerk, born 1918 Warsaw, single; 893/4 East Seward Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 17 November 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 Feb 1941 (line 401)
• Oral history interview with Joseph Bach — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 23452. Catalogue: born Jan 30 1918, Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland); born Warsaw 30 Jan 1918; parents Abram Uszer an… — the interviewee may be living
  USC Shoah Foundation VHA interview 23452: Joseph Bach — the interviewee himself — gave a testimony (catalogue: born Jan 30 1918, Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)); born Warsaw 30 Jan 1918; parents Abram Uszer and Riwka Bach; Bluman: No.401 Jozef Bach, clerk, 22
• 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 Josef Bach: born 1918 at Warschau, an employee, arrived in 1941 from Warsaw; the year, the town and the trade agree with the 1940 Vilna refugee list, the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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