Lubart Mordko

Lubart Mordko received transit visa no. 1055 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lublin yeshiva, aged 24.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

24

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Lublin Yeshiva

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 1248); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Lubart Mordka-Ida, born 5 May 1916 Kutno; registered 21 November 1941; Tokyo-issued passport of 22 September 1941.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Mordka Ira Lubart, 1946: born about 1916, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francis…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Mordka Ira Lubart, born about 1916 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1916, 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 1946 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 384, image 474, 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)
  He was one of the fifty rabbinical students holding Canadian visas issued in Shanghai in October 1941 (visa No. 1253/41). He is on the UNRRA list of Polish rabbinical students who left Shanghai for Canada on the General Meigs, a list dated 5 June 1946. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• Find a Grave memorial 149196497 — the grave of Rabbi Mordechai Yehuda Lubart, New Montefiore Cemetery, West Babylon, New York
  Mordko Lubart, a student of the Lublin yeshiva who came from Shanghai to America in 1946, became Rabbi Mordechai Yehuda Lubart, a Gur hasid and the author of Milchamot Yehuda. He died on 23 September 1997 (21 Elul 5757) and is buried in New Montefiore Cemetery, West Babylon, New York. His gravestone, photographed for Find a Grave, names him the son of Yisrael Yoel Chaim, from Kutno, and one of the distinguished students of the Chachmei Lublin yeshiva — the birthplace the Polish consulate in Shanghai recorded for him and the yeshiva he was registered from.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 6 August 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 6 August 1946, lists Mordche Judel Lubart: born 1916 at Kutno, a yeshiva student, arrived in 1941 from Vilnius; the year and the trade agree with the archive's compiled register (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• 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 Mordko Juda Lubart, aged 23, of Kutno, who was in Wilno during the war; both his names and his age agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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