Sztajngarten Cudek

Sztajngarten Cudek received transit visa no. 1088 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student, aged 28.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

28

Occupation

Rabbinical Student

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; 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 5193, Cudek Szajngarten, born 1912 at Warsaw, who had come from Warsaw; the year agrees with the register's age and Warsaw agrees with the archive's other records.
• 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 296 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 29, born at Warsaw, a yeshiva student; relatives abroad: an uncle, M. Bialer, 254 Delancey Street, New York.
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, their lists and sailings, Shanghai 1945–1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  UNRRA's China Office registered him in Shanghai in 1946 among the Polish rabbis and rabbinical students; he had arrived in China in August 1941 and wished to go on to Palestine. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• USHMM Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database sweep (… — war refugees in China, Mirrer Yeshiva student lists, Canada-visa-holder lists, Mizrachi members, AJDC Migration Dept processed list from Apr 1946) + Flight and Rescue digital index

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