Estera Rozenbaum

Estera Rozenbaum received transit visa no. 971 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. Aged 39 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

39

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #970

The journey

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

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 4619, Estera Rozenbaum, born 1900 at Limanowo, who had come from Kraków; the year agrees with the register's age.
• 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 562 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 41, who travelled from Vilnius.
• 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 25 Feb 1941 (line 971)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Estera Rozenbaum, 1947: born about 1901, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisc…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Estera Rozenbaum, born about 1901 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1901, and the two are 0 years apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1947 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 392, image 717, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, Mizrachi members list and the United Board of Rabbis' birth-data pages, Shanghai 1945–46 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  A list of the members of the Mizrachi Organization of Polish War Refugees in Shanghai, dated 20 December 1945 and kept in the records of UNRRA's China Office, gives her birth as 12 July 1900 in Limanowa. She is listed with her husband Abraham and their daughter Pola. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)

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