Jankiel Magid

Jankiel Magid received transit visa no. 1196 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 20.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

20

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

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…
  203, 21, Dwansk, Polish; aunt Sarah Cohen 26 Villet str New York
• hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: MAGID Jankiel
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 79: MAGID Jankiel, file no. 8275. Match: register No.1196 'Jankiel Magid', and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree. NOTE: the index carries no
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — 'List of Polish war refugees in China', 242 names: the Polish (Sugihara-stream) group in wartime Shanghai, among them Gedalia Zupnik of the Mir, Chaim Ba…
  USHMM 'List of Polish war refugees in China' (242 names) — the Polish Sugihara-stream group in wartime Shanghai
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1514); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Magid Jankiel, student, born 1920 Bransk, single; 50 Museum Road; registered 14 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (M-119, 2 December 1941), valid to December 1943.
• JDC Archives, New York — Shanghai Migration Files, box index (AR 33/44, file 00014): the alphabetical index to the JDC's Shanghai emigration case files, 1946-1950 — some 2,640 case files covering about 5,400 persons, each family under on…
  JDC Shanghai Migration Files, case file no. 8275 — an emigration case file opened for the family in Shanghai after the war; the file itself can be requested from the JDC Archives