Beniawski Israel

Beniawski Israel received transit visa no. 1143 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 17.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

17

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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 522, Izrael Bieniawski, born 1922 at Łomża, who came from Łomża; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and the town with what the archive already holds for this line.
• 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 15 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 19, born at Lomza, a yeshiva student; relatives abroad: an aunt, S. Lisotski, 1989 Stiwell Avenue, Brooklyn, New York; an uncle, D. Beniawski, 30 Shchunat Nordija, Tel Aviv.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Israel Beniawski, 1946: born about 1922, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisc…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Israel Beniawski, born about 1922 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1923, and the two are 1 year 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 385, image 505, 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 the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in New York. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok (Jerusalem), 21 March 1946 — the Shanghai list, letter B (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Israel Beniawski, a student of the Mir yeshiva, reached Shanghai from Wilno in 1941 with the yeshiva. He appears in the list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai that the Jewish Agency's Far Eastern Palestine Committee sent to Jerusalem in 1946, printed by the Search Bureau for Missing Relatives in its bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok: born in 1922 at Łomża, of the Mir yeshiva (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 21 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 21 March 1946, lists Israel Beniawski: born 1922 at Lomza, a student of the Mir yeshiva, arrived in 1941 from Wilno; the year, the town and the trade agree with the 1940 Vilna refugee list, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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