Piekarski Jachok

Piekarski Jachok received transit visa no. 1352 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 28.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

28

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

The journey

Reached Japan.

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 an Icchok Pekalski at entry 4318, born 1921 at Błędów, who had come from Błędów. It is shown as a lead, not as this person: spelled Pekalski Icchok; born 1921 against the register's age of 28, which puts the birth about 1912.

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