Dawid Ryszfeld

Dawid Ryszfeld received transit visa no. 990 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 40.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

40

Occupation

Clerk

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Rose

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  cousin S.Weinsztok 1044 Longfellow Av Bronx NY
• 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.587, age 42, b. Warsaw, Clerk, arr 3.2 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 1006); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Ryszfeld Dawid, private clerk, born 23 August 1899 Warsaw, single; registered 5 May 1941; 1277 Yu Yuen Road; passport R-70 (Ser. I 734107) issued by the Shanghai consulate.
• 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 3 Feb 1941 (line 990)