Leitner Edward

Leitner Edward received transit visa no. 1658 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 23.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

checoslov.

Age in 1940

23

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #1657

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…
  Entry 10 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 24, born at Berlin, who travelled from Vilnius.
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  1917 Berlin; Tschecholv.
• 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 Polish Sugihara-stream group in wartime Shanghai
• Students of the Mir yeshiva in Shanghai: three lists of the students of the Rabbinical College "Mirrer Yeshiva" (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, lists 48681, 48682 and 48654)
  Edward Leitner is named on one of the three lists of the students of the Mir yeshiva in Shanghai indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This is the only line on the register with this given name and surname, and the lists are of the yeshiva that came from Vilna by way of Kobe to Shanghai in 1941, the route the register records for its students.
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Edward Lejtner, born in 1917, of Marienbad, who was in Wilno during the war, and beside it a card for Bruno Lejtner, born in 1919, also of Marienbad; the year and his brother agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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