Izak Bunkielblum

Izak Bunkielblum received transit visa no. 618 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 48.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

48

Occupation

Clerk

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Estera (48)

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for South Africa.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Estera — wife, aged 48

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  #125, age 49, b. Krakow, clerk, arr 13.2, from Vilno
• S.S. Manila Maru, Kobe to South Africa, 29 May 1941 — list of refugee passengers, HICEM meeting half the cost of the passages. JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00053, item 00766. One sheet carries four sailings; this is…
  Named on the passenger list of the Manila Maru, which sailed from Kobe for South Africa on 29 May 1941 — written there as “Dunkelblum Izaak”, alongside “Dunkelblum Estera”. The register records this man's wife as Estera, which is what carries the reading: a clerk's D for a B is an easy slip of the pen and the wife's name is not. A sailing list rather than an arrival record.