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…
  3409; b.GmOrla 1875
• 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…
  No 164; 1921 Bialystok; Polish; cousin Michael Surawicz c/o Lichtenstein, Bilu 12, Tel Aviv; 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…
  #428, 20, b. Bialystok, student, arr 13.2, from Vilno
• 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)