Soltan Ela

Soltan Ela received transit visa no. 1087 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 23.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

23

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 309 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 33, born at Nieswies, a yeshiva student; relatives abroad: an aunt, B. Gabriel, 352 East 19th Street, New York; a cousin, M. M. Gordon, 286 Montgomerry Street, Brooklyn.
• JDC Shanghai migration file: SOLTAN Ela
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 136: SOLTAN Ela, file no. 7830. Match: register No.1087 'oltan Ela' (repaired: Soltan Ela), and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree. NOTE: the
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — 'List of Polish war refugees in China', 242 names: the Polish (Sugihara-stream) group in wartime Shanghai, among them Gedalia Zupnik of the Mir, Chaim Ba…
  USHMM 'List of Polish war refugees in China' (242 names); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026
• JDC Archives, New York — Shanghai Migration Files, box index (AR 33/44, file 00014): the alphabetical index to the JDC's Shanghai emigration case files, 1946-1950 — some 2,640 case files covering about 5,400 persons, each family under on…
  JDC Shanghai Migration Files, case file no. 7830 — an emigration case file opened for the family in Shanghai after the war; the file itself can be requested from the JDC Archives
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Ela Soltan, 1947: born about 1917, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco). Sh…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Ela Soltan, born about 1917 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1917, 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 1947 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 387, image 694, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• Polish rabbis and rabbinical students registered with UNRRA, Shanghai (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, China Office;… — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48676
  The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Shanghai register of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, has Ela Soltan, rabbinical student, arrived in China in Sep 1941, wishing to go to Palestine. The name occurs once on the register; the list is of the refugees who came from Vilna by way of Kobe, and an arrival in Shanghai in Sep 1941 is the route this line is recorded as taking.
• Students of the Mir yeshiva in Shanghai: three lists of the students of the Rabbinical College "Mirrer Yeshiva" (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, lists 48681, 48682 and 48654)
  Ela Boruch Soltan is named on all three lists of the students of the Mir yeshiva in Shanghai indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The name occurs once on the register, and the lists are of the yeshiva that came from Vilna by way of Kobe to Shanghai in 1941, the route the register records for its students.

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