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…
  8245/8246, Ozakientycze, 1917, Torczek
• 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…
  No 64; 1903 Warsaw; Polish; father L.Finkelstein, 5 Ridge Str. New York; 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…
  #160, age 38, b. Warsaw, clerk, arr 13.2
• 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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). — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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