Josef Rubinsztejn

Josef Rubinsztejn received transit visa no. 595 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records accountant, aged 35.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

35

Occupation

Accountant

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Ecuador.

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 Jozef Rubinsztejn at entry 8934, born 1914 at Lodz; the register's compiled age points to a birth about 1905, so the archive shows the entry as a lead, not as this person's record.
• 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 267 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 36, born at Lublin, a clerk; relatives abroad: a cousin, H. Haber, Paterson, New Jersey.
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1176); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Rubinsztejn Josef, prokurent (company officer), born 18 July 1905 Lublin, married; passport by the Polish Embassy in Tokyo 22 August 1941, valid to 21 August 1942.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Josef Rubinsztejn, 1947: born about 1905, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francis…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Josef Rubinsztejn, born about 1905 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the General W. H. Gordon. The register's compiled line gives 1905, and the two are 0 years apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1947 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 394, image 213, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Josef Rubinsztein, aged 34, of Warsaw, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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