Siemiatycki Icek Hirsz

Siemiatycki Icek Hirsz received transit visa no. 1084 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 45.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

45

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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 7582, Icko Hirsz Siemietycki, born 1895, who had come from Mir; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 242 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1895 at Tykocin; relatives abroad: cousins, Rabbi Bender, Brooklyn, and Rabbi Broyde, New York.
• 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 607 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 46, born at Tykocin, a rabbi, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 February 1941.
• 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 1084)
• Tadeusz Romer papers, Library and Archives Canada, MG 31 D 68, vol. 2 (microfilm reel C-10451, frame 1089): 'Lista obywateli polskich ewakuowanych z Dalekiego Wschodu… — cited by link only (Canadiana Heritage); frame image not republished
  Named on the Polish Embassy's list of Polish citizens evacuated from the Far East on the exchange ship s/s Kamakura Maru, Shanghai, 16 August 1942 — one of the 41 'civilian refugees' for whom Ambassador Romer obtained places (evacuee no. 94, 'SIEMIATYCKI Icchok Hirsz'); the party sailed with Romer to Lourenco Marques and most went on to England
• Library and Archives Canada, Tadeusz Romer fonds, MG 31 D 68, reel C-10452, frame 628, via Canadiana Heritage — the same list, page 4, entries 33-41 (Rathaus, Rabbi Siemiatycki, the Waldberg sisters, Wallach, Rabbi Wysokier and wife, Zau…
  On the Polish Embassy's list of 41 Polish refugees (Romer's Shanghai-period papers) (Romer fonds, reel C-10452, frame 628, entry 34): SIEMIATYCKI Icko, rabin, born 1895; passport 456/729/33/VIII/41, Tokio 28.8.41, do 8.12.43 — Holds a Canadian visa valid for the duration of the war, issued in Tokyo 4.9.41 No. 520. If he cannot leave for Canada or the USA, asks to be directed to Johannesburg, where he hopes to organise help for the Mir yeshiva, since Rabbi Kosowski, a very influential alumnus of that yeshiva, is there.

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