Klor Elia-ber

Klor Elia-ber received transit visa no. 1180 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 21.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

21

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: KLOR Elia Ber
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 62: KLOR Elia Ber, file no. 7843. Match: register No.1180 'Klior Elia-Ber' (repaired: Klor Elia-ber), and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree.
• JDC Archives, New York — Shanghai Migration Files, box index (AR 33/44, file 00014): the alphabetical index to the JDC's Shanghai emigration case files, 1946-1950 — some 2,640 case files covering about 5,400 persons, each family under on…
  JDC Shanghai Migration Files, case file no. 7843 — an emigration case file opened for the family in Shanghai after the war; the file itself can be requested from the JDC Archives