Abelson Chaim received transit visa no. 1224 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 23.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
23
Occupation
Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
What is known
Chaim Abelson, born 1916 in Wysock, is listed on the Mirer Yeshivah relief roster with no relatives recorded.
Where this comes from
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… #1, 25, b. Wysock, Yeshiva, arr 3.2.41, from Kovno