Izrael Blass Tobiasz

Izrael Blass Tobiasz received transit visa no. 660 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 36.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

36

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

plus one family member

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Australia.

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 634, Tobiasz Izrael Blas, born 1904 at Warszawa, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 50 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 37, born at Warsaw, a merchant, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 2 February 1941.
• 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 1349) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Blass Izrael Tobiasz, trader, born 21 April 1904 Warsaw; 912/17 Seward Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 1 December 1941.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  He left Japan for Shanghai on the Shanghai Maru, sailing from Kobe on 2 July 1941 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of persons who left Japan for Shanghai, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Blass Izrael — Polish — Kobe". (Shanghai Maru, Kobe, 2 July 1941, destination Shanghai.)
• HaMashkif, 18 and 19 September 1941, and HaBoker, 25 September 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  In September 1941 Izrael Blass sent a greeting from Japan to Simcha Blass in Tel Aviv, printed in HaMashkif on 18 September and in HaBoker on 25 September 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press). The archive attaches it because the messages are from refugees then in Japan, the full name occurs once on the register, and the place and date fit.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 21 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 21 March 1946, lists Israel Tobiasz Blass: born 1904 at Warsaw, a merchant, arrived in 1941 from Vilinus by way of Siberia; the year, the town and the trade agree with the 1940 Vilna refugee list, the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• 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 has Izrael T. Blass, with no year or birthplace. The name occurs only once on Sugihara's list and the list is of refugees at Kobe in 1941, the route his visa took; that is the basis of this attachment.

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