Teodor Labensky

Teodor Labensky received transit visa no. 115 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records journalist, aged 36.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

36

Occupation

Journalist

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #117

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for South America.

Where this comes from

• 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 14 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 35, born at Warsaw, a journalist, who travelled from Kaunas.
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 975); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Labenski Teodor, JOURNALIST (dziennikarz), born 1905 Warsaw, married; registered 14 February 1941; New Asia Hotel, 188 Rue Albert; on a passport issued by the Polish Consulate-General in PARIS 24 November 1938 (Ser. II 029893) on a Warsaw passport of 1938; valid to 6 March 1941.
• Names and addresses of Polish refugees registered with UNRRA wishing to return to Poland, Shanghai, 1946 (United Nations Relief and Rehabilit… — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48688
  In 1946 the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Shanghai office drew up a one-page list of the Polish refugees registered with it who wished to be repatriated to Poland; the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has indexed its 37 names. Teodor Labenski is on it with Margarete Labenska, whom the register records as his wife; both lines are noted as having reached Shanghai.
• 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 Teodor Labenski, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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