Ejger Mendel

Ejger Mendel received transit visa no. 1436 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lublin yeshiva, aged 27.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

27

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Lublin 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 — 'List of Polish war refugees in China', 242 names: the Polish (Sugihara-stream) group in wartime Shanghai, among them Gedalia Zupnik of the Mir, Chaim Ba…
  USHMM 'List of Polish war refugees in China' (242 names); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 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)
  UNRRA's China Office registered him in Shanghai in 1946 among the Polish rabbis and rabbinical students; he had arrived in China in August 1941 and wished to go on to Palestine. (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 1912 in Lublin. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• HaTzofe, 10 April 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Mendel Ejger, a student of the Lublin yeshiva, and Abram Ejger are side by side on HaTzofe's list of the yeshiva refugees in Shanghai, printed on 10 April 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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