Jakob Leszczynski

Jakob Leszczynski received transit visa no. 1189 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 16.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

16

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.

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 7556, Jakub Leszczynski, born 1924, 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 412 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 17, born at Grodno, a student, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 2 February 1941.
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  36 1924 Grodno; grand father G.Leshinski 525 e curech Orlando Florida
• 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 2 Feb 1941 (line 1189)
• M.S. Hie Maru, Kobe 4 May – Yokohama 7 May – Seattle 18 May 1941, sheet 5 of 11 — transcribed for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild by David Rosen
  Hie Maru passenger no. 105; Student; b. Grodno, Poland; last residence Vilnius, Lithuania; US visa Q.I.V.6103, issued Kobe, 4-28-1941; to N.Y., N.Y.; joining Uncle, David Kamerman, 1501 Broadway, N.Y.; nearest relative left behind: Nobody, Vilnius Lithuania; TENTATIVE: sailed with a Leszczinski family of six (Dawid 42, Basia, Leja, Rywka, Jeruchim); only one Leszczynski is on the register
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Jacob Leszczinski, 1941: born about 1925, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Se…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Jacob Leszczinski, born about 1925 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1924, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  He left Yokohama on the Hie Maru on 7 May 1941, bound for the USA (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: No. 27–29: "Leszczynski Dawid, ″ Basia, ″ Jakob". (Hie Maru, Yokohama, 7 May 1941.)
• A ship, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Jacob Leszczinski — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriv…
• Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Jakob Leszczynski — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew L…

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