Hendel Icchok
Visa no. 1479 · Kaunas, 7 August 1940
Hendel Icchok received transit visa no. 1479 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lubavitsch yeshiva, aged 23.
What the register records
- Nationality as recorded
- Polnisch
- Age in 1940
- 23
- Occupation
- Rabbinical Student - Lubavitsch Yeshiva
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Canada.
Where this comes from
- 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 274 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 24, born at Komarow, a yeshiva student, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 13 February 1941. - JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
No 123/14; 1917 Komarow; Polish - 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 1479) - "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Icchok Hendel, 1941: born about 1917, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco).…
FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Icchok Hendel, born about 1917 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1917, 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. - Rabbi Michoel Seligson, "Our Heros: Reb Yosef M. M. Tenenbaum (1917-1993)" — full biography provided by owner (Chabad community publication)
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