Potasznik Mendel

Potasznik Mendel received transit visa no. 1485 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - radin yeshiva, aged 32.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

32

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Radin Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #1484

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; 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…
  245, 33, Wolozyn, yeshiva; aount Abramovitz 524 Rutkin str Brooklyn NY, uncle I.Rusatski 913 North 5 str Philadelphia
• 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 1441) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Potasznik Mendel, born 2 April 1908 Wolozyn; registered 13 December 1941; 912/10 East Seward Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 3 December 1941 — found on reading the page.