Gotlib Eliezer Icchok

Gotlib Eliezer Icchok received transit visa no. 1457 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lecker yeshiva, aged 22.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

22

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Lecker Yeshiva

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Elezer Icchov Gotlib, 1941: born about 1918, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Fran…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Elezer Icchov Gotlib, born about 1918 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1918, and the two agree. 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.
• 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 Eliezer-Icchok Gotlib: aged 23, born at Kolno, a yeshiva student, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 13 February 1941; he is entered directly below Szolim Manes Gotlib of Kolno, also on the register. His age and his yeshiva agree with the register. Sugihara's typist wrote the name as Gotlib Lejzor, the Yiddish form of Eliezer.
• 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 1690, Eliezer Icchok Gotlib, born in 1918 at Kolno, who came from Opatow.
• 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 Eljezer Gotlib, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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