Azja Hirsz

Azja Hirsz received transit visa no. 1075 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 27.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

27

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…
  #8857, Bialystok, b.1913, Bialystok
• 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…
  #16, 28, b. Bialystok, Yeshiva, arr 3.2, from Kovno
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  22 1913 Bialystok; aunte H.Bendelstein c/o Koralanski Brooklyn 690 Willongby av
• hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: AZJA Hirsz
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 162: AZJA Hirsz, file no. 7771. Match: register No.1075 'Azja Hirsz', and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree. NOTE: the index carries no ages
• 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 1480) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Azja Hirsz, student, born 1913 Bialystok, single; 50 Museum Road; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (A-50, 3 December 1941). — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Azja Hirsz appears a SECOND time at entry 1527 (registered 16 December 1941, born 3 March 1913 Bialystok, 50 Museum Road) on the same passport A-50 — the consulate entered him twice.
• 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 25 Feb 1941 (line 1075)