Josef Rubinsztejn
Visa no. 595 · Kaunas, 31 July 1940
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… 8934; Lodz; b.1914 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…267, 36, Lublin, clerk; cousin H.Haber Paterson N.J. 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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. Open this entry in the full register →
Josef Rubinsztejn is one of 2,140 people recorded in the surviving register of the transit
visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
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