Zygmunt Rancman

Zygmunt Rancman received transit visa no. 645 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records technician, aged 35.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

35

Occupation

Technician

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

plus one family member

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1905 at Warszawa; relatives abroad: an uncle, Pinkus Beraks, Rio de- (the line breaks off there).
• 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 551 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 36, born at Warsaw, a technician, who travelled from Vilnius.
• 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 1043); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Rancman Zygmunt, technician, born 1905 Warsaw; registered May 1941; 1277/16H Yu Yuen Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 22 April 1941 (Ser. II 290643).
• 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 645)
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR33-44 fi… — “List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai and Harbin in the month of May 1941”, compiled by the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
  Named in the Kobe committee's list of persons who left Japan for Shanghai and Harbin in the month of May 1941 (JDC Archives). Zygmunt Rancman sailed from Kobe for Shanghai on 24 May 1941 aboard the Kamakura Maru; this clerk types the surname 'Anneman', and the Kobe relatives list types it 'Ranoman', so the spelling wandered in both offices. The forename is one of only seven of its kind on the register and the only one with this surname. He reached Japan on 13 February 1941 and registered at Shanghai.

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