Szacher Lejba

Szacher Lejba received transit visa no. 1605 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 10 August 1940. The register records mir yeshiva, aged 28.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

28

Occupation

Mir Yeshiva

The journey

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

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…
  7592; 1912; Mir
• 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…
  #626, age 29, b. Nowolesie, yeshiva, from Kowno
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  59 1912 Nowolesie; cous.S.Fiszman Peteluma RT 248 California
• 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 1249); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Szacher Lejba, born 1912, registered 21 November 1941; Tokyo-issued passport of 22 September 1941 — found on reading the page.
• 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 Feb 1941 (line 1605)