Rabinowicz Jankiel

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.

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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…
  Entry 545 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 27, born at Lohiczyn, a yeshiva student, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 13 February 1941.
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  69 1914 Lohiszyn; uncl.J.Rabinowitsch Allendale Karolina
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 13 Feb 1941 (line 1098)
• HIAS Shanghai (the Far Eastern Jewish Central Information Bureau for Emigrants, M. Birman, manager) to HIAS New York: the list of refugees who left Shanghai during August 1946 — sixteen names on the first sheet, all sailing on 11 August…
  HIAS Shanghai's list of refugees who left Shanghai during August 1946 names a 'Rabinowicz, Yankiel' among the sixteen who sailed on 11 August 1946 aboard the S.S. Marine Lynx for the United States. Under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 a name on a list of the Sugihara refugees' own route counts as a corroboration when the full name occurs once on the register and the record's place and date fit the route; all three hold here, and the line is attached on that basis.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Jankiel Rabinowicz, 1946: born about 1914, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franci…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Jankiel Rabinowicz, born about 1914 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the Marine Lynx. The register's compiled line gives 1914, and the two are 0 years apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1946 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 384, image 30, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• 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, as a rabbinical student who had arrived in China in September 1941 and wished to go on to Palestine. In 1946 he was among the students accepted by Congregation Rodoph Sholom in Tampa. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• Polish rabbis and rabbinical students registered with UNRRA, Shanghai (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, China Office;… — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48676
  The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Shanghai register of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, has Jankiel Rabinowicz, rabbinical student, arrived in China in Sep 1941, wishing to go to Palestine. The name occurs once on the register; the list is of the refugees who came from Vilna by way of Kobe, and an arrival in Shanghai in Sep 1941 is the route this line is recorded as taking.
• Students of the Mir yeshiva in Shanghai: three lists of the students of the Rabbinical College "Mirrer Yeshiva" (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, lists 48681, 48682 and 48654)
  Jankiel Rabinowicz is named on all three lists of the students of the Mir yeshiva in Shanghai indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This is the only line on the register with this given name and surname, and the lists are of the yeshiva that came from Vilna by way of Kobe to Shanghai in 1941, the route the register records for its students.
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Jakub Rabinowicz, born in 1914, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• USHMM: Polish passport issued to Jankiel Rabinowicz.
• USHMM: Smallpox vaccination certificate issued to Jankiel Rabinowicz.

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