Jelin Rut

Jelin Rut received transit visa no. 736 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. Aged 22 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

22

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #738

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…
  2536; Zduriska Wola; 1918; from Lodz
• 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…
  226, 23, b. Zdunska Wola, 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 1201) — found on reading the ledger page itself — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Jelin Ruth, born 1918 Zdunska Wola — named as wife on her husband Samuel Jelin's Shanghai entry 1201, 'added to his passport by the British Legation in Kaunas on 1 August 1940' — a marriage on the road, days before their visas.
• Shanghai Ledger, page 150 (left): entries 1194-1201, registered 3 October 1941: Nattel Chaskel (merchant, b. 25 Jun 1886 Wieliczka) and Anna (b. 1889), Rabinowicz Izrael Moszek (merchant, b. 1906 Zakrzowek), Rabbi Szapiro Salomon (b. 18…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 150 (right): entries 1194-1201, registered 3 October 1941: Nattel Chaskel (merchant, b. 25 Jun 1886 Wieliczka) and Anna (b. 1889), Rabinowicz Izrael Moszek (merchant, b. 1906 Zakrzowek), Rabbi Szapiro Salomon (b. 18…