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…
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• 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Fajnzyngerg Cheska, born 2 April 1918 Ostrow Mazowiecka; registered 13 December 1941; Tokyo-issued passport of 3 December 1941.