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.

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…
  7508; 1912; Mir
• 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…
  #130, age 29, b. Rubiezewicze, rabbi, arr 3.2, from Kovno
• 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)
• 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)