Zinger Hill

Zinger Hill received transit visa no. 1052 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lublin yeshiva, aged 21.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

21

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Lublin Yeshiva

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…
  Entry 260 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 22, born at Aleksandrow, a yeshiva student, Polish.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Chil Menachem Zynger, 1947: born about 1920, 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 Chil Menachem Zynger, born about 1920 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1919, and the two are 1 year 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 686, 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)
  The United Board of Rabbis and Rabbinical Colleges in Shanghai listed him among its members after the war, born in 1919 in Aleksandrow. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• Davar, 19 March 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Hil (Jechiel Menachem) Zinger, son of the rabbi of Ostrowa, and his fellow Lublin yeshiva student Icchak Menachem Topola sent greetings from Shanghai to Rabbi Avraham Landau in Jerusalem; Davar printed them on 19 March 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• HaTzofe, 10 April 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Hil (Jechiel Menachem) Zinger is on HaTzofe's list of the yeshiva refugees in Shanghai, printed on 10 April 1942, beside his fellow Lublin student Icchak Topola (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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