Baranowicz Lejba

Baranowicz Lejba received transit visa no. 1108 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 28.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

28

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…
  690; b.Grodek 1912; from Miv
• 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…
  19; age 29; b. Grodek; Yeshiva; uncle B.Bierman 36 Waverley Av Newark N.J.
• hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: BARANOWICZ Lejba
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 4: BARANOWICZ Lejba, file no. 7748. Match: register No.1108 'Baranowicz Lejba', and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree. NOTE: the index carrie
• 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. 7748 — an emigration case file opened for the family in Shanghai after the war; the file itself can be requested from the JDC Archives