Licht Abram

Licht Abram received transit visa no. 1412 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lecker yeshiva, aged 19.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

19

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Lecker Yeshiva

The journey

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

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…
  5227; iokaxzew; b.1922 Gz^stoniew
• 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 1425); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026
• Beth Din / Rabbinate of Shanghai, certificate for Rabbi Abraham Licht, 1946 — active at the Emes synagogue, Shanghai, 1 Dec 1941 – Mar 1946; from Saul Jaskoll's family papers