Kohen Moses

Kohen Moses received transit visa no. 1548 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 8 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lecker yeshiva, aged 18.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

18

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Lecker Yeshiva

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; 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 3165, Mojzesz Kohen, born 1922, who had come from Kleck; the year agrees with the register's age.
• 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…
  Entry 142 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 19, born at Warsaw, a yeshiva student, Polish; relatives abroad: an uncle, H. L. Sacks, 370 Bell Street, Akron, Ohio.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Mojzesz Kohen, 1941: born about 1922, 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 Mojzesz Kohen, born about 1922 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The surname is the register's and rare on it, and the given name is close but not the same; a lead, not an identification.

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