Abram Srul Arbuz

Abram Srul Arbuz received transit visa no. 1198 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 21.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

21

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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 156, Abram Srul Arbuz, born 1919 at kol. Wacławice, who came from Ostrów Mazowiecki; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 11 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 22, born at Kalchowica, a yeshiva student, Polish; relatives abroad: an uncle and a cousin, Rossman, 1510 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, New York.
• Students of the Mir yeshiva in Shanghai: three lists of the students of the Rabbinical College "Mirrer Yeshiva" (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, lists 48681, 48682 and 48654)
  Abram Arbuz is named on two of the three lists of the students of the Mir yeshiva in Shanghai indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The name occurs once on the register, and the lists are of the yeshiva that came from Vilna by way of Kobe to Shanghai in 1941, the route the register records for its students.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 21 March 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 21 March 1946, lists Abram Arbuz: born 1919 at Kolchowiczo, a student of the Mir yeshiva, arrived from Kaunas; the year, the town and the trade 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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