Mejer Jankiel Gryngras

Mejer Jankiel Gryngras received transit visa no. 1193 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 25.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

25

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Latin America.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  No 260; age 27; born Radzilow; from Vilno
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  47 1920 Kamieniec L.; aunte H.Marens 1310 union av Bronx N.Y.
• hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: GRYNGRAS Meyer Jankiel
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 40: GRYNGRAS Meyer Jankiel, file no. 7608. Match: register No.1193 'Mejer Jankiel Gryngras', and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree. NOTE: the
• 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 14 Feb 1941 (line 1193)