Zielonka Ruchla

Zielonka Ruchla received transit visa no. 790 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. Aged 31 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

31

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #789

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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…
  No.196, age 33, b. Bendzin
• M.S. Hie Maru, Kobe 4 May – Yokohama 7 May – Seattle 18 May 1941, sheet 6 of 11
  Hie Maru passenger no. 131; 32y 4m; Housewife; b. Bedzin, Poland; last residence Sosnowiec, Poland; US visa Q.I.V.1304, issued Yokohama, 5-1-1941; to N.Y., N.Y.; joining Uncle, Max Jacoby, 64 Wooster St. N.Y.; nearest relative left behind: Father-in-law, Josek Zielonka, Sosnowiec Kowalska 2 Poland