Rubin Zylberman

Rubin Zylberman received transit visa no. 403 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records clerk, aged 27.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

27

Occupation

Clerk

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Rachela (26)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Rachela — wife, aged 26

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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…
  7340; b.1913
• 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…
  307, 1913 Warsaw, Polish; brother Henryk Zylberman 60 rua Tapyratyba Sao Paulo, uncle Akiba and Michel Juliber 1153 St Johns Place Brooklyn NY
• 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…
  no.746, age 28, Warsaw, Clerk, arr 25.2 Vilno; note Rochela
• 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 403)