Czeczyk Oszer

Czeczyk Oszer received transit visa no. 1522 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbi - radin yeshiva, aged 25.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

25

Occupation

Rabbi - Radin Yeshiva

The journey

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

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 957, Oszer Czeczyk, born 1914 at Pińsk, who came from Pińsk; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and the town with what the archive already holds for this line.
• 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 26 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 27, born at Pinsk, who arrived in Japan from Utena on 13 January 1941.
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  Radiner Yesivah; 1914 Pink; Polish
• JDC Shanghai migration file: CZECZYK Oszer
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 18: CZECZYK Oszer, file no. 7502. Match: register No.1522 'Czeczik Omer' (repaired: Czeczyk Oszer), and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree. NO
• 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 1365); the register line's repaired reading and the ledger agree exactly — matched on the repaired register name, approved under the owner's review of 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Czeczyk Oszer, RABBI, born 5 November 1914 Pinsk; 599/72 Tongshan Road; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (C-47, 3 December 1941).
• JDC Archives, New York — Shanghai Migration Files, box index (AR 33/44, file 00014): the alphabetical index to the JDC's Shanghai emigration case files, 1946-1950 — some 2,640 case files covering about 5,400 persons, each family under on…
  JDC Shanghai Migration Files, case file no. 7502 — an emigration case file opened for the family in Shanghai after the war; the file itself can be requested from the JDC Archives
• 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 Jan 1941 (line 1522)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Oszer Czeczyk, 1946: born about 1915, 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 Oszer Czeczyk, born about 1915 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1915, 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 498, 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 listed among the passengers for the General Meigs to the United States in July 1946. A list of the same year gives his birth as 1914, in Pinsk, and his address as 281 Liaoyang Road. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, Mizrachi members list and the United Board of Rabbis' birth-data pages, Shanghai 1945–46 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  The United Board of Rabbis and Rabbinical Colleges in Shanghai listed him among its members after the war, born in 1914 in Pinsk. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• 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)
  Oszer Czeczyk 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.

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