Rabinowicz Jankiel received transit visa no. 1098 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 26.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
26
Occupation
Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
What is known
Polish passport issued to Jankiel Rabinowicz. Shandel Horowitz is the daughter of Jacob (Yankiel) Rabinowicz, the son of Rabbi Avigdor Rabinowicz and Tzipora Rabinowicz nee Shakhnovitz. Jacob was born on July 9, 1914 in Lohiszyn Poland and grew up in Suprasl, Poland, a shtetl near Bialystok, where his father was the chief rabbi. He studied at the Mir Yeshiva. After the start of World War II, the entire yeshiva fled to Vilna in then independent Lithuania. After the Soviet occupation of Lithuania the yeshiva began looking for a new home and the Japanese consul in Kovno, Chiune Sugihara granted transit visas for the entire yeshiva. Almost the entire yeshiva left for Japan during the months o…
Where this comes from
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.545, age 27, b. Lohiczyn, yeshiva, arr 13.2 from Kovno