Grodzicki Szyja

Grodzicki Szyja received transit visa no. 1633 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - kamiencier yeshiva, aged 20.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

20

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Kamiencier Yeshiva

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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…
  No 250; age 22; born Okuniew; Yeshiva; from Vilno
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  1919 Okuniew; Polish
• hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: GRODZICKI Szyja Bar
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 38: GRODZICKI Szyja Bar, file no. 8296. Match: register No.1633 'Grodzicki zyja' (repaired: Grodzicki Szyja), and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — 'List of Polish war refugees in China', 242 names: the Polish (Sugihara-stream) group in wartime Shanghai, among them Gedalia Zupnik of the Mir, Chaim Ba…
  USHMM 'List of Polish war refugees in China' (242 names); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026
• 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. 8296 — an emigration case file opened for the family in Shanghai after the war; the file itself can be requested from the JDC Archives