Krajzer Charon

Krajzer Charon received transit visa no. 1348 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 19.

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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 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 159 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 22, born at Wlodawa, a yeshiva student, Polish; relatives abroad: an uncle, J. Rozner, Rua General Caltwel 67, Rio de Janeiro; an uncle, J. Kimmel, 14 By Ward Market, Ottawa.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Abraham Aron Krieser, 1946: born about 1921, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Fran…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Abraham Aron Krieser, born about 1921 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1921, 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 385, image 477, 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 had arrived in China in August 1941 and wished to go on to Palestine. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• 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…
  Aron Krieser of the Mir yeshiva registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai on 23 June 1941 as Abraham Aron Krieser, a student born at Leipzig on 1 October 1920, living at 17/3 Jubilee Road — the address on the letters his parents sent him. (Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archives, the Shanghai consulate's register, digitised by the Library of Congress.)
• 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 Charon Krajzer, rabbinical student, arrived in China in Sep 1941, wishing to go to Palestine. The name occurs once on the register; the list is of the refugees who came from Vilna by way of Kobe, and an arrival in Shanghai in Sep 1941 is the route this line is recorded as taking.
• 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)
  Charon Krajzer 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 name occurs once on the register, 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.
• National Archives and Records Administration, Alien Case Files (Record Group 566), catalog descriptions read through the NARA Catalog API
  The National Archives holds an alien case file for Aron Kreiser (the register's Krieser), born 8 March 1919 in Poland, who entered the United States at New York on 7 June 1948 and was naturalised in New York on 7 May 1957 (file A6924027, NARA catalog NAID 608697175). The birth year agrees with the Kobe list's age for this line; the 1948 entry at New York is the later admission for permanent residence, after the San Francisco landing already on this page.
• 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 Aron Krajzer, born in 1919, of Włodawa, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and the town agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 31 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 31 March 1946, has Charon Krajzer, born in 1919 at Wlodowa, a yeshiva student, who came in 1941 from Lithuania.
• Invaluable/Pasarel lot 196 — Abraham Aron Krieser, Polish Residents Association in China ID card (Shanghai, Feb 1943)
• Pasarel lot 195 — 4 WWII postcards from Krieser's parents (Antwerp → Shanghai/Kobe, 1941)
• Pasarel lot 193 — collection of 8 letters between Krieser and his parents (Antwerp/Leipzig/Shanghai, 1940-42)
• Winner's auction: Związek Polaków w Chinach legitymacja — identity card of Mir student Abraham Aron Kreiser (b. Leipzig 1920), Shanghai Jan 1943, stamps 1944-45
• Kreiser family correspondence (Heritage auction lot H19097, 9 i… — including his mother's Antwerp card of 11 Jul 1941 (Nazi censor stamps) asking about the Kobe crossing; one letter references Benjamin Hoermann, 33 Nassau Street, New York

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