Menachim Orlinski

Menachim Orlinski received transit visa no. 1195 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 19.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

19

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; 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 a Jakób Orlański at entry 4206, born 1913 at Białystok, who had come from Łódź. It is shown as a lead, not as this person: the list has Menachem struck out and Jakób typed in, and a year of 1913 against the register's age of 19.
• 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 239 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 21, born at Zambrow, a yeshiva student, Polish; relatives abroad: an uncle, M. Baron, 3345 West Adams Street, Chicago, Illinois.
• Polish rabbis and rabbinical students registered with UNRRA, Shanghai (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, China Office;… — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48676
  The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Shanghai register of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, has Menachim Orlinski, rabbinical student, arrived in China in Oct 1941, wishing to go to Palestine. The name occurs once on the register; the list is of the refugees who came from Vilna by way of Kobe, and an arrival in Shanghai in Oct 1941 is the route this line is recorded as taking.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 3 October 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 by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 3 October 1946, lists Menachim Orlinski: born 1920 at Zamborow, a student, arrived in 1941 from Zamborow by way of Siberia; the year and the town agree with the 1940 Vilna refugee list, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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