Kunstadt Heiniman

Kunstadt Heiniman received transit visa no. 1181 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records mir yeshiva, aged 23.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

23

Occupation

Mir Yeshiva

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; 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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 7552, Heimann Kunstadt, born 1917, who had come from Mir; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 51 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 24, born at Fulde, a student, who travelled from Ramigala; left for Palestine, departing 20 January 1941.

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