Fabian Kurt

Fabian Kurt received transit visa no. 1117 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

German

Age in 1940

26

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Civija (27)

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Civija — wife, aged 27

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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…
  7615; 1914; Mir
• 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…
  22; 27; b. Breslau; Rabbi; German
• hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: FABIAN Kurt
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 23: FABIAN Kurt (file number lost in the scan). Match: register No.1117 'Fabian Kurt', and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree. NOTE: the index
• 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 Polish Sugihara-stream group in wartime Shanghai