Rabinowicz Icko

Rabinowicz Icko received transit visa no. 1128 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 20.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

20

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  Entry 224 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1920 at Izabelin; relatives abroad: a father, Rabbi F. Rabbinovitz, care of N. Nochimoff, Brooklyn, New York.
• 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 543 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 21, born at Izabelin, a yeshiva student, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 February 1941.
• 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 25 Feb 1941 (line 1128)
• 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 Icchok Rabinowicz, born in 1920, of Izabelin, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and the town agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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