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.

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…
  7556; 1924; Mir
• 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…
  #412, 17, b. Grodno, Student, arr 2.2, from Kovno
• 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
  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