Ejger Abram

Ejger Abram received transit visa no. 1437 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lublin yeshiva, aged 26.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

26

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Lublin 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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 1158, Abraham Ejger, born 1914 at Warszawa, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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…
  Entry 57 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 27, born at Warsaw; relatives abroad: an uncle, H. Wajnberg, Rachani 51, Tel Aviv.
• 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 1373) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Ejger Abram, student, born 4 May 1914 Warsaw; 35 Moulmein Road; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (E-22, 5 December 1941).
• 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, 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 1914 in Warsaw. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• HaTzofe, 10 April 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Abram Ejger, a student of the Lublin yeshiva, and Mendel 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).
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 28 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 28 March 1946, lists Abraham Eiger: born 1914 at Warsaw, a student of the Lublin yeshiva, arrived in 1941 from Warsaw; the year, the town and the trade agree with the 1940 Vilna refugee list, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Abram Ejger, aged 25, of Warsaw, who was in Wilno during the war; his age and his city agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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