Leiwik Krupenia

Leiwik Krupenia received transit visa no. 1184 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 26.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

26

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

The journey

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

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 7543, Lejwik Krupenia, born 1914, 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 389 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 27, born at Slonim, a yeshiva student, who travelled from Vilnius.
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  37 1914 Slonim; Uncl.N.Kunitz R 1 MR Prineeton N.Y.
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1152); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Krupenia Lejwik, born 15 May 1914; registered 22 September 1941; Tokyo-issued passport of 15 September 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 1184)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Lejwik Krupenia, 1946: born about 1914, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Lejwik Krupenia, born about 1914 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1914, 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 1946 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 384, image 478, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, their lists and sailings, Shanghai 1945–1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  He was one of the fifty rabbinical students holding Canadian visas issued in Shanghai in October 1941 (visa No. 1251/41). He is on the UNRRA list of Polish rabbinical students who left Shanghai for Canada on the General Meigs, a list dated 5 June 1946. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)

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