Leizerzon Moszek

Leizerzon Moszek received transit visa no. 1215 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

• 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…
  183, 21, Tarnow, yeshiva, Polish; uncle Natan Guterman 116 Mill st Brooklyn NY
• 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 1486); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026
• Archive note, 30 August 2026 — a correction to the Kobe attributions. Thirteen register entries had been matched to two lines each of the Kobe refugee register, on the strength of a similar surname. In seven cases the two lines described…
  This entry had been given a second Kobe line describing a weaver of twenty-six from Pabjanice. The register has a rabbinical student of nineteen at the Mir yeshiva. Entry 183, on page 46 — Leiserson Moszek, twenty-one, of Tarnow, yeshiva, with an uncle Natan Guterman at 116 Mill Street, Brooklyn — is the line that remains.