Serebrowski Abram Aron

Serebrowski Abram Aron received transit visa no. 1092 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 19.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

19

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…
  7578; 1921; Mir
• 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…
  no.606, age 20, b. Piaski, yeshiva, arr 14.2 from Kovno
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  55 1921 Piaski; Uncl.Jos.Sherman 10 Clarendon Boston Mass
• hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: SEREBROWSKI Abram Aron
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 134: SEREBROWSKI Abram Aron, file no. 9812. Match: register No.1092 'erebrowski Abram Aron' (repaired: Serebrowski Abram Aron), and the register independently records this person as reaching Shangha
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1461); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Serebrowski Abram Aron, born 28 January 1921 Piaski; 50 Museum Road; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (S-220, 3 December 1941).
• 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. 9812 — an emigration case file opened for the family in Shanghai after the war; the file itself can be requested from the JDC Archives