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…
  522, Lomza, b.1922, from Lomza
• 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…
  15, 19, Lomza, yeshiva; aunt S.Lisotski 1989 Stiwell Ave Brooklyn NY, uncle D.Beniawski 30 Shchunat Nordija Tel Aviv