Jelin Rut

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

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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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 2536, Ruta Jelin, born 1918 at Zduńska Wola, who came from Łódź; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and her husband Samuel Jelin, also on the register (No. 738), appears close by on the list.
• 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 226 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 23, born at Zdunska Wola, 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 1201) — found on reading the ledger page itself — the ledger reads: 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, 2 February 1943: membership certificate No. J-38/2P/8/43 of the Polish Residents' Association in China (Związek Polaków w Chinach), the particulars side: Ruth Jelin, born Zduńska Wola, 24 August 1918, housewife, of 372/2 Rue Ma…
  Her membership certificate of the Polish Residents' Association in China, Shanghai, 2 February 1943 (No. J-38/2P/8/43): born Zduńska Wola, 24 August 1918, housewife, of 372/2 Rue Maresca, valid to 1 February 1944, with her photograph. The name, birthplace and year of birth agree with the Vilna refugee list and the Kobe community's register for this line; the certificate adds the day. Given by Leah Sills, whose grandmother was Ruth Jelin's sister-in-law.
• Shanghai, 3 January 1946: the first page of a letter in Polish signed 'Ruth', to 'Jacek' in America. Word of her family in Poland has reached her through a family friend in New York, and she asks Jacek to do everything he can to obtain p…
  Her letter from Shanghai of 3 January 1946, in Polish, signed 'Ruth', asking 'Jacek' in America for papers for her sister Stenia in Łódź; affidavits had arrived and Samek was to go to the American consulate the next day. The letter carries no surname. It is held by the family as hers, and its writer is a Ruth in Shanghai in January 1946 whose household includes a Samek and whose sister is in Łódź, the city both Jelins had fled from. Given by Leah Sills, whose grandmother was Ruth Jelin's sister-in-law.
• 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…
• Shanghai, 1943: the printed front of membership certificate No. J-38/2P/8/43 of the Polish Residents' Association in China (Związek Polaków w Chinach), in Polish and English: the General Council certifies that the bearer is registered as…
• Shanghai, 2 February 1943: membership certificate No. J-38/2P/8/43 of the Polish Residents' Association in China (Związek Polaków w Chinach), the particulars side: Ruth Jelin, born Zduńska Wola, 24 August 1918, housewife, of 372/2 Rue Ma…
• Shanghai, 3 January 1946: the first page of a letter in Polish signed 'Ruth', to 'Jacek' in America. Word of her family in Poland has reached her through a family friend in New York, and she asks Jacek to do everything he can to obtain p…
• Shanghai, 3 January 1946: the second page of the same letter. Affidavits have arrived and Samek will go to the American consulate tomorrow; she hopes they too may leave, and that Stenia might reach America. She signs 'Your Ruth', and add…

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