Kaminski Chaim

Kaminski Chaim received transit visa no. 1023 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 23.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

23

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 14 Feb 1941 (line 1023)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Chaim Kaminski, 1947: born about 1917, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco)…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Chaim Kaminski, born about 1917 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1917, 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 387, image 714, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• 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 on 30 August 1941 and wished to go on to Palestine. His Polish passport was No. K-223/2/17/41. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• 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 Chaim Kaminski, rabbinical student, arrived in China in 30 Aug 1941, wishing to go to Palestine. The name occurs once on the register; the list is of the refugees who came from Vilna by way of Kobe, and an arrival in Shanghai in 30 Aug 1941 is the route this line is recorded as taking.
• 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)
  Chaim Kaminski is named on all 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.
• Reclaim The Records — The NYC Marriage Index, 1950–1995 (from the New York City Clerk's Office)
  The New York City Clerk's marriage index, published by Reclaim The Records, has a Chaim Kaminski taking out a licence to marry in Manhattan in 1954. Kaminski is a common name and the index gives no age or birthplace, so this is no more than a lead; the bride is not named because she may be living.
• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register lists Chaim Kaminski: aged 25, born at Kamieniec, a yeshiva student, who arrived in Japan on 14 February 1941 from Krakes, the Lithuanian town where the Mir yeshiva was then quartered. His age, his yeshiva and his date of arrival agree with the register. Sugihara's typist wrote the name as Kaminski Haman.
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Chaim Kaminski, born 1916, of Kamieniec, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and the town agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 31 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 31 March 1946, lists Chaim Kaminski: born 1916 at Kamienice, a yeshiva student, arrived in 1941 from Kowno; the year, the town and the trade agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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