Hendel Icchok

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…
  No 274; age 24; born Komarow; yeshiva; arr 13.2; from Vilno
• 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)
• Rabbi Michoel Seligson, "Our Heros: Reb Yosef M. M. Tenenbaum (1917-1993)" — full biography provided by owner (Chabad community publication)