Fainstein Jechiel

Fainstein Jechiel received transit visa no. 1453 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records yeshiva, aged 30.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

30

Occupation

Yeshiva

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• 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 59 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1910 at Malecz, Polish; relatives abroad: an uncle, M. Fajnsztajn, 138 Henry Street, New York.
• 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…
  Entry 150 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 31, born at Malecz, a yeshiva student, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 14 February 1941.
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  50 1910 Malec; Uncl.M.Feinstein 148 Henry str New York
• 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 14 Feb 1941 (line 1453)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Jechiel or Michael Fajnsztajn or Fainstein, 1941: born about 1911, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessel…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Jechiel or Michael Fajnsztajn or Fainstein, born about 1911 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1910, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  He left Yokohama on the Tatuta Maru on 15 May 1941, bound for the USA (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Fajnstajn Jechiel". (Tatuta Maru, Yokohama, 15 May 1941.)
• 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 Jechiel Feinstein, a yeshiva student born in 1910, of Malecz, who was in Wilno during the war; the year, the town and his studies agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• 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 7509, Fajnsztejn Jechyel Michel, born 1910, who came from Mir; the year agrees with the age the register gives.

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