Kanarek Israel Elieser

Kanarek Israel Elieser received transit visa no. 1151 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 23.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

23

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #1150

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 24, born at Leipzig, a yeshiva student, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 13 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 14 Feb 1941 (line 1151)
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS Tatuta Maru, sailing from Yokohama 6 March 1941, arrived San Francisco 20 March 1941 (US National Archives, M1410, film 368; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  He arrived at San Francisco on 20 March 1941 aboard the Tatuta Maru from Yokohama with his brother, both coming as immigrants on quota visas issued in Moscow on 30 January 1941; the manifest gives his birthplace as Leipzig, his father as Marcus Kanarek of Tarnów, and his destination as an uncle, Jakub Kestenbaum, in New York (manifest held by the US National Archives, read on FamilySearch's copy).
• 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 Israel Eliezer Kanarek, born in 1917, of Leipzig, who was in Wilno during the war; the year, the city and both his given names agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• 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 2599, Izrael Kanarek, born in 1917, who came from Mir. Josef Dawid Kanarek is the next entry.

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