Szebszajewicz Pinchos
Visa no. 1324 · Kaunas, 7 August 1940
Szebszajewicz Pinchos received transit visa no. 1324 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 27.
What the register records
- Nationality as recorded
- Polnisch
- Age in 1940
- 27
- Occupation
- Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.
What is known
Pinchus Szepszajewicz, born 1913 in Rakow, listed his uncle Harry Sebsowitz of Brooklyn, New York as his relative contact.
uncle Harry Sebsowitz Brooklyn N.Y. Sterling Pl.
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…
Entry 641 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 28, born at Rakow, a yeshiva student, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 3 February 1941. - JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
20 1913 Rakow; uncle Harry Sebsowitz Brooklyn N.Y. Sterling Pl. - 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 3 Feb 1941 (line 1324) - UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, their lists and sailings, Shanghai 1945–1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
UNRRA's China Office registered him in Shanghai in 1946 among the Polish rabbis and rabbinical students; he had arrived in China in August 1941. He was one of the fifty rabbinical students holding Canadian visas issued in Tokyo in September 1941 (visa No. 521). (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.) - JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
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