Flajszaker Lewi

Flajszaker Lewi received transit visa no. 1343 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 22.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

22

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife

The journey

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

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 1547, Lejwi Flejszakier, born 1918 at Łódź, who came from Łódź; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and the town with what the archive already holds for this line.
• 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 71 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 25, born at Lodz; relatives abroad: an uncle, Ch. Fleisher, 657 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York.
• 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 1484) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Flajszaker Lewi, born 1918 Lodz; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (F-69, 2 December 1941).
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — 'List of Polish war refugees in China', 242 names: the Polish (Sugihara-stream) group in wartime Shanghai, among them Gedalia Zupnik of the Mir, Chaim Ba…
  USHMM 'List of Polish war refugees in China' (242 names) — the Polish Sugihara-stream group in wartime Shanghai
• Rabbi Chuna (Elchonon Yosef) Hertzman, Mirer yeshive in golus — the Mir yeshiva in exile (Brooklyn: the author, 1950). A 28-page Yiddish account by a student of the yeshiva of its road from Mir to Vilna, Keidan, Kobe and Shanghai, with a…
  A photograph in Rabbi Chuna (Elchonon Yosef) Hertzman's Mirer yeshive in golus (Brooklyn, 1950), p. 8, no. 22, is captioned, in the book's words, a yeshiva wedding of HaRav Levi Fleischhacker in Shanghai; the caption is the only source for the wedding here.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Lewi Flajszaker, 1946: 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 Lewi Flajszaker, born about 1918 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946. The register's compiled line gives 1918. A lead only: the register carries 2 lines of this name, and the index entry cannot be assigned to one of them without the manifest sheet.
• 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. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• Geneteka (Polish Genealogical Society) — the Jewish birth register of Łódź, 1918, held by the State Archive in Łódź
  The Jewish birth register of Łódź for 1918, held by the State Archive in Łódź and indexed in Geneteka by the Polish Genealogical Society, records Lewi Flajszaker, born on 16 April 1918, son of Syma and Dwojra née Hirszenberg, the same name, year and town as the refugee lists give for him. Read in Geneteka's index, October 2026; the scan is held by the State Archive in Łódź.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 28 March 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 28 March 1946, lists Lewi Flajszaker: born 1918 at Lodz, a yeshiva student, arrived in 1941 from Kaunas; the year, the town and the trade 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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