Szapiro Szolim Benc.

Szapiro Szolim Benc. received transit visa no. 1339 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 19.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

19

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• The HIAS Shanghai registration of refugees, 1… — Arolsen Archives, Bad Arolsen, collection 3.1.1.3 (registrations of former persecutees in Asia), unit 19532. A page may be shown singly with this citation; Arolsen is told where it appears.
  The HIAS Shanghai registration (Arolsen Archives, 3.1.1.3, unit 19532) lists Szalem Szapiro, a rabbinical student born on 29 January 1921 in Brześć, single, who reached Shanghai from Vilnius by way of Siberia on 22 August 1941; he named Rabbi L. J. Fraenkel in Jerusalem and Rabbi Kalmanowicz in Brooklyn. A HIAS list of departures dated 2 January 1947 (Arolsen Archives, 3.1.1.3, unit 19613) has Szolem Szapiro leaving Shanghai for the United States. The list reads: entry 6962, Arolsen 3.1.1.3/78797472 (unit 19532): "SZAPIRO Szalem (single), 29.1.21 Brzesc, Pol., rabbi student, 22.8.41 from Vilnius, via Siberia; 1. Rabbi L.J. Fraenkel, 23 Menachem street, Jerusalem; 2. Rabbi Kalmanowicz, 540 Bedford ave., Brooklyn N.Y." Also 18997 (3.1.1.3/78796412): "Szapiro, Szalem 21 Brzesko [sic]"; 19613 (3.1.1.3/78797736, list dated 2 January 1947): "57 SZAPIRO Szolem, 599/10 Tongshan Rd., U.S.A."
• 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 and wished to go on to Palestine. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)

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