Blumberg Lejb

Blumberg Lejb received transit visa no. 1346 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 25.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

25

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

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…
  8446, 1918
• 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…
  #60, 26, b. Warsaw, yeshiva, arr 14.2, from Kovno
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  52 1915 Warszawa
• hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: BLUMBERG Lejb
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 9: BLUMBERG Lejb, file no. 7849. Match: register No.1346 'Blumberg Lejb', and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree. NOTE: the index carries no a
• 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