Paler Benjamin received transit visa no. 1210 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 29.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
29
Occupation
Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Canada.
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… 208, 1911 Brzesc; uncle Ben Rams Salt Lake, uncle Dov Paler Rishon Palest
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 338, 30, Brzesc
hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: PALER Benjamin JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 165: PALER Benjamin, file no. 7800. Match: register No.1210 'Paler Benjamin', and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree. NOTE: the index carries