Boruch Rembaum

Visa no. 576 · Kaunas, 31 July 1940

Boruch Rembaum received transit visa no. 576 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records student, aged 22.

What the register records

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

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 4567, Boruch Renbaum, born 1918 at Warsaw, who had come from Warsaw; the year agrees with the register's age.
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 a Boruch Rambaum at entry 4696, born 1917 at Warsaw, who had come from Częstochowa. It is shown as a lead, not as this person: the year agrees, but a second line, Boruch Renbaum at entry 4567, also fits, and is the closer spelling.
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 255 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 23, born at Ciechanow, a student, Polish; relatives abroad: a cousin, Philipp Saloma, 18 Christopher Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.