Ejdelman Lipa

Ejdelman Lipa received transit visa no. 1275 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records mir yeshiva, rabbi, aged 32.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

32

Occupation

Mir Yeshiva, Rabbi

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #1276

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.

What is known

Lipa Edelman and his relative Rywka Edelman, both from Brzesc nad Bugiem, are listed together with their cousin Sonis Sider of Brooklyn, New York as a contact.

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…
  7502; 1908; Mir
• 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.35, age 33, b. Brzesc, Yeshiva, from Vilno
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  11 1908 Brzesc n/B; Cousin Sonis Sider Brooklyn N.Y. 1488 Sterling Place
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 25 Jan 1941 (line 1275)