Edelman Hirsz

Edelman Hirsz received transit visa no. 1078 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbi - mir yeshiva, aged 28.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

28

Occupation

Rabbi - Mir Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #1646

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; 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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 7508, Hirsz Edelman, born 1912, who had come from Mir; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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…
  Entry 130 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 29, born at Rubiezewicze, a rabbi, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 3 February 1941.
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  21 1912 Rubiezewicze; uncl.rabbi Bariskanski Bronx 666 Davson str; cous.J.Kantorowicz Bronx 1007 e174 str
• 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 3 Feb 1941 (line 1078)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Hirsz Edelman, 1941: born about 1912, 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 Hirsz Edelman, born about 1912 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1912, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• Polish Legation in Kaunas certificate of Hirsz Edelman
• MJH eMuseum object 2001.A.70: Polish Legation in Kaunas certificate of Hirsz Edelman, full-resolution scan 1/2 (media 6473)

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