Abram Hersz Kusznier Fraj

Abram Hersz Kusznier Fraj received transit visa no. 1186 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.

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…
  Entry 174 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 21, born at Wolpa, a yeshiva student, Polish; relatives abroad: a cousin, M. Losz, Achuza Street, Raanana; J. Markowitz, 187 East 169th Street, Bronx, New York.
• 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)
  UNRRA's China Office registered him in Shanghai in 1946 among the Polish rabbis and rabbinical students; he had arrived in China in August 1941 and wished to go on to Palestine. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Abram Girsh Kuszner, born 1920, of Wołpa, who was in Wilno during the war; his names, his year and his town agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• 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 in La-karov ve-la-rachok on 11 April 1946, has Abram Hirsch Kuszner-Fray, born in 1920 at Wolpa, a yeshiva student, who came in 1941 from Kaunas. Sugihara's ledger writes the name Kusznier Fraj; this list writes Kuszner-Fray.

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