Morduch Rogow

Morduch Rogow received transit visa no. 822 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records rabbi - kamiencier yeshiva, aged 41.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

41

Occupation

Rabbi - Kamiencier Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Nechama (35), children (Ester (12), Benjamin (10))

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Nechama — wife, aged 35
• Ester — child, aged 12
• Benjamin — child, aged 10

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

• 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…
  4759, Lipniszki, 1898, from Sejny
• 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…
  257, 43, Lipniszki, rabbi; cousin Rabbi Ramanovitz Brooklyn NY, uncle Rabbi Kopstein Canton Ohio
• A document held in the archive's files