Lanienter Szaja

Lanienter Szaja received transit visa no. 1375 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records lublin yeshiva, aged 34.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

34

Occupation

Lublin Yeshiva

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

Where this comes from

• Mark Halpern correspondence (9 Aug 2026): Netherlands Legation certificate, Tokyo, 18 March 1941 — Minister J.C. Pabst certifies that 74 named persons of Polish nationality "do not need a Netherlands visa in order to proceed to the Nethe…
  Amakusa Maru 74 — Netherlands Legation certificate (Tokyo, 18 Mar 1941), line 4. Cross-referenced by Mark Halpern, researcher (Aug 2026); archive pass concurs. raw register row read Lanienter Iszaja; repaired to Tanienter on this certificate's evidence.
• Haaretz, 2 February 1942, and HaTzofe, 3 February 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Szaja Lanienter reached Palestine by way of India. In February 1942 he was on the list of immigrants then travelling from India to the Land of Israel — with Szymon Seroka, who had shared his Dutch certificate in Tokyo — printed by Haaretz (2 February) and HaTzofe (3 February 1942) (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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