Moszko Rotenberg

Moszko Rotenberg received transit visa no. 612 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records rabbi, aged 21.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

21

Occupation

Rabbi

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

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, at entry 4636, Moszko Rotenberg, born 1919 at Międzyrzec, 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 Moszek Rosenberg at entry 7350, born 1923 at Dlugie Siodlo, who had come from Dlugie Siodlo; the register spells the surname Rotenberg and its compiled age points to a birth about 1919, so the archive shows the entry as a lead, not as this person's record.
• 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 143 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 22, born at Podlaski; left for the USA on 25 January 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 Jan 1941 (line 612)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Moszek Rotenberg, 1941: born about 1920, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisc…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Moszek Rotenberg, born about 1920 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1919, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS President Taft, sailing from Kobe, Japan, January 1941 (day partly hidden, probably 23), arrived San Francisco date not read (US National Archives, M1410, film 367; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  Moszek Rotenberg, 21, a rabbi born in Międzyrzec, sailed from Kobe on the President Taft early in 1941, according to the passenger manifest held by the US National Archives (FamilySearch's copy). He named his father Jacob Rotenberg of Nowolipki Street, Warsaw, and was going to his brother L. Rotenberg in Cincinnati.

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