Szrajbman Mordchaj

Szrajbman Mordchaj received transit visa no. 1089 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 25.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

25

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

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 5654, Morducha Szrajbman, born 1916 at Pińsk, who had come from Pińsk; the year agrees with the register's age and Pińsk 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 330 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 28, born at Pinsk, a yeshiva student; relatives abroad: an uncle, S. Gutensky, 1821 Hamlin Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
• 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. In 1946 he was among the students accepted by the Hebrew Theological College in Chicago. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953 — FamilySearch, index entries read 24 October 2026
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read on 24 October 2026, has Mordchaj Szrajbman, aged 32 and born in Poland about 1915, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the General M. C. Meigs. The surname occurs once on the register, the birth year agrees with the Vilna list and the register, and the General Meigs carried refugees from Shanghai, where UNRRA registered him in 1946, so the entry is taken as this man.

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