Edelman Szolom

Edelman Szolom received transit visa no. 1646 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - kamiencier yeshiva, aged 24.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

24

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Kamiencier Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #1078

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 1243, Salom Ejdelman, born 1916, who came from Stolin; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 131 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 25, born at Rubiezewicze, a yeshiva student, who arrived in Japan on 13 February 1941.
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  1916 Rubiezewicze; Polish; J. Kantorowitz 1007 E 174 str./1674 Bryant av. Bronx NY
• 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 1646)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Szolom Edelman, 1941: born about 1916, 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 Szolom Edelman, born about 1916 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1916, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.

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