Gotlib Szolim

Gotlib Szolim received transit visa no. 1345 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 29.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 1143); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Gotlib Szolim-Manes, born 23 December 1910 Kolno, single; registered 22 September 1941; passport G-103 issued by the Shanghai consulate 19 September 1941.
• 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 2 Feb 1941 (line 1345)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Szolin Manes Gotlib, 1946: born about 1910, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franc…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Szolin Manes Gotlib, born about 1910 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1911, and the two are 1 year 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 486, 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, as a rabbi. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• 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)
  Szolim Menasze Gotlib is named on one of the three lists of the students of the Mir yeshiva in Shanghai indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This is the only line on the register with this given name and surname, and the lists are of the yeshiva that came from Vilna by way of Kobe to Shanghai in 1941, the route the register records for its students.
• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register lists Szolim Manes Gotlib, aged 31, born at Kolno, a yeshiva student, who reached Japan on 2 February 1941. Sugihara's ledger lost the first letter of his given name; the register has it in full.
• 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 in La-karov ve-la-rachok on 28 March 1946, has him as Gotlib-Szolim Manes, born in 1910 at Kolno, a rabbinical student who came in 1941 from Lithuania.
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Szolom Menasze Gotlib, born in 1910, of Kolno, who was in Wilno during the war; the year, the town and his second name agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
• Shanghai Ledger, page 143 (left): entries 1138-1145, registered 22 September 1941 on passports issued by the Shanghai consulate itself 19 September 1941: the Schleier family (Izak, merchant, b. 1886 Suceava; Pepi/Pessel b. 1887 Lwow; Ire…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 143 (right): entries 1138-1145, registered 22 September 1941 on passports issued by the Shanghai consulate itself 19 September 1941: the Schleier family (Izak, merchant, b. 1886 Suceava; Pepi/Pessel b. 1887 Lwow; Ir…

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