Wilenski Szmujlo

Wilenski Szmujlo received transit visa no. 1132 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records mir yeshiva, aged 42.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

42

Occupation

Mir Yeshiva

The journey

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

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…
  6217; Wysoki Maz.; 1917; Czestochowa
• 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…
  #358, 54, Ejszyszki, yeshiva, Polish
• hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: WILENSKI Szmujlo
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 168: WILENSKI Szmujlo, file no. 7898. Match: register No.1132 'ilenski zmujlo' (repaired: Wilenski Szmujlo), and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts
• 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. 7898 — an emigration case file opened for the family in Shanghai after the war; the file itself can be requested from the JDC Archives