Zajac Awia

Zajac Awia received transit visa no. 1411 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - kamiencier yeshiva, aged 28.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

28

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Kamiencier Yeshiva

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 13 Feb 1941 (line 1411)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Aba Zajac, 1946: born about 1911, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco). Shi…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Aba Zajac, born about 1911 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1912, 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 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 449, 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)
  In 1946 he was among the students accepted by the Mesifta Talmudical Seminary in Brooklyn. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• 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 1911 in Brzesc. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register lists Aba Zajac, aged 30, born at Brzesc, who reached Japan on 13 February 1941. Sugihara's ledger writes his given name Awia; the register writes Aba.
• 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, at entry 7358, Aba Zajac, born in 1911 at Brzesc, who came from Brzesc.

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