Fajnzynberg Cheska

Fajnzynberg Cheska received transit visa no. 1365 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student, aged 22.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

22

Occupation

Rabbinical Student

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Edith, son Orale Chaim

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 65 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 23.
• 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 1405); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Fajnzyngerg Cheska, born 2 April 1918 Ostrow Mazowiecka; registered 13 December 1941; Tokyo-issued passport of 3 December 1941.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Cheska Fainzynberg, 1947: born about 1919, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franci…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Cheska Fainzynberg, born about 1919 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1918, 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 1947 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 387, image 722, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, Mizrachi members list and the United Board of Rabbis' birth-data pages, Shanghai 1945–46 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  The United Board of Rabbis and Rabbinical Colleges in Shanghai listed him among its members after the war, born in 1918 in Ostrow Mazowiecka. His wife Edith is listed with him, born in 1925 in Beuthen. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• List of members of the United Board of Rabbis and Rabbinical Colleges, Shanghai (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48661)
  Cheska Fajnzynberg is named on the list of members of the United Board of Rabbis and Rabbinical Colleges in Shanghai, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The name occurs once on the register; the Board was the body of the Polish rabbis and yeshiva students who reached Shanghai from Kobe in 1941, and their families, the route the register records for this line.

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