Boruch Lifsyc

Boruch Lifsyc received transit visa no. 588 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records student, aged 19.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

19

Occupation

Student

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

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 a Boruch Lifszyc at entry 3409, born 1875 at Orla, who had come from Bystryca. It is shown as a lead, not as this person: born 1875 against the register's age of 19, which puts the birth about 1921.
• 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 164 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1921 at Bialystok, Polish; relatives abroad: a cousin, Michael Surawicz, care of Lichtenstein, Bilu 12, Tel Aviv; a cousin, Raja Pontin, Fencherstr. 51/52, London.
• 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 428 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 20, born at Bialystok, a student, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 13 February 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 588)
• HaBoker, HaTzofe, Omer and Haaretz, 19 September 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Boruch Lifsyc reached Bombay on the way from Japan to Palestine. On 19 September 1941 the Tel Aviv papers HaBoker, HaTzofe and Omer printed a telegram from the committee of Polish-Jewish refugees listing 'these Polish refugees, immigrants to the Land of Israel', whose address at that time was Cook's office in Bombay; the name is on it. The archive attaches it because the list is one of the refugees on the Sugihara route, the name occurs once on the register, and the place and date fit (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• HaMashkif, 18 and 19 September 1941, and HaBoker, 25 September 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  From Japan in September 1941 Boruch Lifsyc sent a greeting to his cousin Michael Surawicz, at the Lichtensteins' in Tel Aviv; HaMashkif printed it on 19 September 1941 and HaBoker on 25 September (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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