Szlomowicz Efraim

Szlomowicz Efraim received transit visa no. 1334 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 20.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

20

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #1325

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Canada.

Where this comes from

• JDC Shanghai migration file: SZLOMOWICZ Abram
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 168: SZLOMOWICZ Abram, file no. 7811. Match: register No.1334 'zlomowicz Abram' (repaired: Szlomowicz Abram), and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts
• 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 1149); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Szlomowicz Abram, born 1920 Wolkowysk, single; registered 22 September 1941 with his brother Efroim (entry 1148, student, b. 1920 Wolkowysk); Tokyo-issued passport of 15 September 1941. NOTE: the ledger has one Abram and one Efroim; the register's two Abram Szlomowicz rows (1325, 1334) may be the two brothers under one misread name.
• JDC Archives, New York — Shanghai Migration Files, box index (AR 33/44, file 00014): the alphabetical index to the JDC's Shanghai emigration case files, 1946-1950 — some 2,640 case files covering about 5,400 persons, each family under on…
  JDC Shanghai Migration Files, case file no. 7811 — an emigration case file opened for the family in Shanghai after the war; the file itself can be requested from the JDC Archives
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Efroim Szlomowicz, 1946: born about 1920, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francis…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Efroim Szlomowicz, born about 1920 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1920, 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 1946 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 384, image 454, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• 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 wished to go on to Palestine. He was one of the fifty rabbinical students holding Canadian visas issued in Shanghai in October 1941 (visa No. 1260/41). (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• The 1950 United States census (US National Archives, 1950census.archives.gov)
  In April 1950 the United States census found him in Brooklyn, aged 29, born in Poland, a rabbi, married (National Archives, 1950 census, enumeration district 24-281, sheet 6).
• Polish rabbis and rabbinical students registered with UNRRA, Shanghai (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, China Office;… — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48676
  The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Shanghai register of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, has Abram Szlomowicz, rabbinical student, arrived in China in 1941, wishing to go to Palestine. The register carries two lines of this name, Nos. 1325 and 1334, both rabbinical students of the Mir yeshiva; which of them the entry is cannot be said from the name.
• Students of the Mir yeshiva in Shanghai: three lists of the students of the Rabbinical College "Mirrer Yeshiva" (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, lists 48681, 48682 and 48654)
  Abram Szlomowicz is named on two of the three lists of the students of the Mir yeshiva in Shanghai indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The register carries two lines of this name, Nos. 1325 and 1334, both students of the Mir yeshiva; which of them the entry is cannot be said from the name.
• Sugihara's ledger read on the page for Nos. 1325 and 1334: the same given name typed twice for two brothers, Abram and Efraim (owner's ruling, 23 October 2026)
  Sugihara's ledger types "Szlomowicz Abram" on two lines, No. 1325 and No. 1334, nine apart on the same day. The documents show two brothers: the Canadian visas issued in Shanghai in October 1941 and UNRRA's register name both an Abram and an Efraim Szlomowicz among the Mir students, Efraim sailed for San Francisco in 1946 and was in Brooklyn in the 1950 census, and the compilation gives No. 1334 as Efraim. The archive reads No. 1334 as Efraim, the typist having repeated his brother's given name, and keeps each brother's records on his own page (owner's ruling of 23 October 2026, correcting the same day's reading of the two lines as one man).

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