Lewinsztein Chaskiel

Lewinsztein Chaskiel received transit visa no. 1165 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbi - mir yeshiva, aged 54.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

German

Age in 1940

54

Occupation

Rabbi - Mir Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #1192

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  166, 85 Warsaw, Polish
• 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 417 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 56, born at Warsaw, a rabbi, who travelled from Kaunas.
• 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 25 Feb 1941 (line 1165)
• Rabbi E. Y. Hertzman, Escape to Shanghai, translated and edited by Rabbi C. U. Lipschitz (Maznaim, New York, 1981) — a Mir yeshiva student's memoir of the flight from Poland through Vilna, Kaunas, the Trans-Siberian, Kobe and Shanghai. P…
  In Rabbi Elchonon Yosef Hertzman's memoir Escape to Shanghai (Maznaim, New York, 1981), Rabbi Yechezkel Levenstein, the mashgiach, continues his mussar talks at Kobe (p. 54), and Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz's report in Hapardes, Tammuz 5701 — written from the accounts of rabbis newly arrived from Japan and quoted by Hertzman on p. 55 — says the mashgiach gave his talks there as usual.
• Rabbi Chuna (Elchonon Yosef) Hertzman, Mirer yeshive in golus — the Mir yeshiva in exile (Brooklyn: the author, 1950). A 28-page Yiddish account by a student of the yeshiva of its road from Mir to Vilna, Keidan, Kobe and Shanghai, with a…
  In Rabbi Chuna (Elchonon Yosef) Hertzman's Mirer yeshive in golus (Brooklyn, 1950), he is the mashgiach of the whole account — his talks in the Lithuanian small towns in 1940 (p. 18) and in Shanghai (p. 23) — and is named first among the yeshiva's heads in the closing thanks, Rabbeinu Yechezkel HaLevi Levenstein (p. 28).
• Hapardes (Chicago), year 15, no. 4, Tammuz 5701 (July 1941), 52 pp. — Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz, "Hatzalat yeshivat Mir — kiyumah u-vinyanah" (The rescue of the Mir yeshiva, its survival and its rebuilding), pp. 6–8, written in America a…
  Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz's article in Hapardes, year 15, no. 4, Tammuz 5701 (July 1941), pp. 6–8, written in America from the accounts of rabbis newly arrived from Japan, describes the Mir yeshiva as it stood at Kobe that summer under its heads and its mashgiach; the passage on the yeshiva's house at Kobe is the one Hertzman quotes in English in Escape to Shanghai, p. 55.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Chackiel Lewinsztejn, 1947: born about 1886, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Fran…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Chackiel Lewinsztejn, born about 1886 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1886, and the two are 0 years 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 1947 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 387, image 762, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• National Archives and Records Administration, Alien Case Files (Record Group 566), catalog descriptions read through the NARA Catalog API
  The National Archives holds an alien case file for Chackiel Lewinsztein, born 5 August 1885 in Poland, who entered the United States at San Francisco on 17 January 1947 (file A6623199, NARA catalog NAID 608689446). The name and the birth year agree with the register's line, and the port and date of entry are the route's.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 11 April 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 11 April 1946, lists Chaskiel Lewinstein: born 1885 at Warsaw, a rabbi, arrived in 1941 from Vilnius; the year, the town and the trade agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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