Ruchla Rozmarin

Ruchla Rozmarin received transit visa no. 547 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. Aged 41 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

41

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #560

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 565 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 52, who travelled from Vilnius.
• "List of persons arriving on route to New Zealand" — the arrival roster for the sailing from Japan, September 1941: 33 typed names, from Dr George Bluman’s own marked-up cop… — September 1941, not July; he had misread his own handwriting.
  Named on the list of persons arriving on route to New Zealand, sailing from Japan in 1941. The ledger reads 'uchla osmarin'; both initials are missing. Zona is wife, not a name.
• 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 547)

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