Breskin Judel

Breskin Judel received transit visa no. 1465 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - radin yeshiva, aged 25.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

25

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Radin Yeshiva

The journey

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

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…
  727; b.Slonim 1915; from Radun
• 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…
  No.20, age 26, b. Slonim, Student, arr 25.1.1941, from Vilno
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  1915 Slonim; uncl. J. Rakoff 1738 Brotoko parc E Bronx NY
• hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: BRESKIN Judel
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 11: BRESKIN Judel, file no. 7503. Match: register No.1465 'Breskin Judel', and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree. NOTE: the index carries no
• 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 1352) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Breskin Judel, student, born 6 February 1915 Slonim, single; 35 Moulmein Road (the Jewish Recreation Club); Tokyo-issued passport of 6 December 1941.
• JDC Archives, New York — Shanghai Migration Files, box index (AR 33/44, file 00014): the alphabetical index to the JDC's Shanghai emigration case files, 1946-1950 — some 2,640 case files covering about 5,400 persons, each family under on…
  JDC Shanghai Migration Files, case file no. 7503 — an emigration case file opened for the family in Shanghai after the war; the file itself can be requested from the JDC Archives
• 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 25 Jan 1941 (line 1465)