Borensztein Icek Nojach

Borensztein Icek Nojach received transit visa no. 1162 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records mir yeshiva, aged 31.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

31

Occupation

Mir Yeshiva

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

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…
  7483; 1909; Mir
• 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…
  #66, 32, b. Kadzidlo, student, arr 2.2, from Krakai
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  1909 Kadzidlo; uncle Borenstein Brooklyn 55 Stuves