Rajter Mojsze

Rajter Mojsze received transit visa no. 1606 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 10 August 1940. The register records rabbi - mir yeshiva, aged 28.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

28

Occupation

Rabbi - Mir Yeshiva

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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…
  263; 29; Melnica; Rabbi; uncles Naum Menn Reines str 48 Tel Aviv, Isak Grafman 47 Sholom Alejchem Tel Aviv
• 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 1144); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Rajter Mojsze, born 5 July 1912 Mielnica, single; registered 22 September 1941; passport R-81 issued by the Shanghai consulate 19 September 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. 7797 — an emigration case file opened for the family in Shanghai after the war; the file itself can be requested from the JDC Archives (names closely match; approved under the owner's standing review)