Izrael Rysak

Izrael Rysak received transit visa no. 671 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records bookkeeper, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Bookkeeper

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Chaja Zelda (17)

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Chaja Zelda — wife, aged 17

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 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 1204); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Ryzak Izrael, book-keeper, born 28 November 1910, married; registered 6 October 1941; 181 Avenue Dubail; Tokyo-issued passport of 8 July 1941 (Ser. II 004094) on a British Legation Kaunas certificate (R-235).
• 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 671)
• Shanghai Ledger, page 151 (left): entries 1202-1209, registered 3-6 October 1941: Kulik Boruch (translator, b. 25 Apr 1909 Warsaw), Silvan Wincenty (journalist, b. 9 Jul 1896 Kalisz), Ryzak Izrael (book-keeper, b. 28 Nov 1910), Rapaport…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 151 (right): entries 1202-1209, registered 3-6 October 1941: Kulik Boruch (translator, b. 25 Apr 1909 Warsaw), Silvan Wincenty (journalist, b. 9 Jul 1896 Kalisz), Ryzak Izrael (book-keeper, b. 28 Nov 1910), Rapaport…