Jankiel Finkielsztejn

Jankiel Finkielsztejn received transit visa no. 1014 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 21.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

21

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

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 8246, Jankiel Finkielsztejn, born 1917 at Ozakientycze, who had come from Torczek; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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…
  Entry 64 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1903 at Warsaw, Polish; relatives abroad: a father, L. Finkelstein, 5 Ridge Street, New York; an uncle, Gelerstein J., Quanouenas, Chile.
• 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 160 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 38, born at Warsaw, a clerk, who arrived in Japan on 13 February 1941.
• 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 1378) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Finkielsztain Jankiel Szlama, student, born 5 November 1918 Kurow, single; 50 Museum Road; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (F-67, 3 December 1941). — the ledger reads: NOTE: the ledger has two Jankiel Finkielsztejns — entry 1378 (office clerk, b. 14 January 1903 Warsaw, 9 Route de Grouchy, passport F-57 of 5 December 1941) and entry 1483 (student, b. 5 November 1918 Kurow); the register's single 'Jankiel Finkielsztejn' is one of them.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — 'List of Polish war refugees in China', 242 names: the Polish (Sugihara-stream) group in wartime Shanghai, among them Gedalia Zupnik of the Mir, Chaim Ba…
  USHMM 'List of Polish war refugees in China' (242 names) — the Polish Sugihara-stream group in wartime Shanghai
• 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 1014)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Jankiel Finkelsztejn, 1947: born about 1903, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Fran…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Jankiel Finkelsztejn, born about 1903 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947. The register's compiled line gives 1903. A lead only: the register carries 2 lines of this name, and the index entry cannot be assigned to one of them without the manifest sheet.
• Polish rabbis and rabbinical students registered with UNRRA, Shanghai (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, China Office;… — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48676
  The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Shanghai register of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, has Jankiel S. Finkielsztejn, rabbinical student, arrived in China in August 1941, wishing to go to Palestine. The register carries two men of this name: this line, a Mir yeshiva student born about 1919, and No. 1120, a bank clerk born about 1903. The UNRRA entry's occupation fits this line, its arrival in Shanghai in August 1941 is the route this line is recorded as taking, and the Polish consulate in Shanghai wrote him with the same middle initial.
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, their lists and sailings, Shanghai 1945–1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  UNRRA's China Office registered him in Shanghai in 1946 among the Polish rabbis and rabbinical students; he had arrived in China in August 1941 and wished to go on to Palestine. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• Students of the Mir yeshiva in Shanghai: three lists of the students of the Rabbinical College "Mirrer Yeshiva" (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, lists 48681, 48682 and 48654)
  Jankiel Sz Finkielsztejn is named on two of the three lists of the students of the Mir yeshiva in Shanghai indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The name occurs once on the register, and the lists are of the yeshiva that came from Vilna by way of Kobe to Shanghai in 1941, the route the register records for its students.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 28 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 28 March 1946, lists Jankel Finkielsztejn: born 1918 at Kurow, a yeshiva student, arrived in 1941 from Kaunas by way of Kobe; the year and the trade agree with the 1940 Vilna refugee list, the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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