Milner Hirsz

Milner Hirsz received transit visa no. 1508 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records kamieniecer yeshiva, aged 24.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

24

Occupation

Kamieniecer Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Malka (17)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Malka — wife, aged 17

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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 4055, Hirsz Milner, born 1915, who had come from Sierniki; the year agrees with the register's age.
• 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 120 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 26, born at Somniki, a yeshiva student.
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  1915 Serniki; Polish; A. Hirsz 571 E 170 str. Bronx NY
• 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 24 Jan 1941 (line 1508)
• 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)
  Girsz (Hirsz) Milner, born in Serniki, married Malka in Shanghai on 4 January 1944; the certificate of the Shanghai Ashkenazi Jewish Communal Association, issued in July 1946, is in UNRRA's file on the rabbinical students. UNRRA registered him in 1946 as a rabbi living at 308 Route Cardinal Mercier and wishing to go to Canada, and he was one of the fifty rabbinical students holding Canadian visas issued in Tokyo in September 1941 (visa No. 517). (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• The JDC's Shanghai migration files, 1946–1950 — the index of emigrants from Shanghai (JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 14)
  Hirsz Milner of the Kamieniec yeshiva is in the JDC's index of its Shanghai emigration cases as Girsz Milner, with his wife Malka and their family, filed among those leaving for Canada or England — the destination the register's compiled line gives him. (JDC Archives, New York, AR 33/44, the Shanghai migration index)
• List of members of the United Board of Rabbis and Rabbinical Colleges, Shanghai (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48661)
  Hirsz Milner is named on the list of members of the United Board of Rabbis and Rabbinical Colleges in Shanghai, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The name occurs once on the register; the Board was the body of the Polish rabbis and yeshiva students who reached Shanghai from Kobe in 1941, and their families, the route the register records for this line.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 29 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 29 August 1946, lists Girsz Milner: born 1915 at Sarniki, a merchant, arrived in 1941 from Lithuania by way of Sib.; the year and the town agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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