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…
  309; 33; Nieswies; yeshiva; aount B.Gabriel 352 E19 Str New York, cousin MM.Gordon 286 Montgomerry str Brooklyn
• hunt/jdc_shanghai: 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