Mincer Pejsach

Mincer Pejsach received transit visa no. 1242 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records mechanic, aged 22.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

22

Occupation

Mechanic

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for South America.

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 3664, Pejsach Mincer, born 1918 at Lubartów, who had come from Lubartów; the year agrees with the register's age and Lubartów agrees with the archive's other records.
• 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 206 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 23, born at Lubartow, a mechanic; relatives abroad: a brother, Gerson Mincer, Natania, Polish station, Palestine; a cousin, Nachmil Nittenhaus, 108 B Avenue, Mexico, Mexico.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Pejsach Mincer, 1949: born about 1918, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco)…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Pejsach Mincer, born about 1918 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1949 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1918, and the two are 0 years apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1949 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 403, image 674, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry — Sharon Gardens, Valhalla, New York
  A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: a Paul Mincer, born in 1918 and died in 1996, is buried at Sharon Gardens in Valhalla, New York. The year agrees with the register's; nothing else on the record ties it to him. In the JewishGen burial registry, read 18 October 2026.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 29 August 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 29 August 1946, lists Pejsach Mincer: born 1918 at Lubartow, a mechanic, arrived in 1941 from Lithuania; the year and the town 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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