Henryk Grynblat

Henryk Grynblat received transit visa no. 621 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 27.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

27

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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…
  1751, Warszawa, b.1912
• 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…
  1912 Warszawa; Polish; cousin S.Grinblat Catlette 355a Seb. Rio de Janeiro
• 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…
  No 257; age 29; born Warsaw; Passmant.; arr 13.2; from Vilno
• 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 1045) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Grynblat Henryk, private clerk, born 11 November 1912 Warsaw, single; 986/9 Pillot Road; passport G-90 issued by the Shanghai consulate 26 May 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 Feb 1941 (line 621)