Lichtenstein Kalman

Lichtenstein Kalman received transit visa no. 1507 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - kamiencier yeshiva, aged 26.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

26

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Kamiencier Yeshiva

The journey

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

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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 3484, Kałman Lichtensztejn, born 1913, who had come from Białystok; the year agrees with the register's age and Białystok agrees with the archive's other records.
• 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 423 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 28, born at Bialystok, a yeshiva student, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 14 February 1941.
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  1913 Bialystok; Polish; uncl. Sal Lichtenstein Philadelphia
• 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 14 Feb 1941 (line 1507)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Kalman Lichtensztejn, 1946: born about 1914, 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 Kalman Lichtensztejn, born about 1914 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1914, and the two are 0 years apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1946 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 384, image 474, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, their lists and sailings, Shanghai 1945–1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  He was one of the fifty rabbinical students holding Canadian visas issued in Tokyo in September 1941 (visa No. 530). In 1946 he was among the students accepted by the Mesifta Talmudical Seminary in Brooklyn. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 6 August 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 6 August 1946, lists Kalman Lichtenstein: born 1913 at Bialystok, a yeshiva student, arrived in 1941 from Vilnius; the year, the town and the trade agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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