Nacha-Nina Rochman

Nacha-Nina Rochman received transit visa no. 648 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records journalist, aged 24.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

24

Occupation

Journalist

The journey

Reached Japan.

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 1916 at Lodz; relatives abroad: Dr Chana Wislicka, John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore; a cousin, Odinak Salzmann, 1 rue des Vieux Grenadiers, care of Pasteure, Geneva.
• 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 558 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 25, born at Lodz, a journalist, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 3 February 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 3 Feb 1941 (line 648)
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Nacha Rochman, a journalist born in 1916, of Warsaw, who was in Wilno during the war; her profession and her year agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

×