Zojmen Wulf

Zojmen Wulf received transit visa no. 1708 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - novaredoker yeshiva bialystock, aged 28.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

28

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Novaredoker Yeshiva Bialystock

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  Pinsker Yesivah; 1911 Kroszyn; Polish; uncl. Benia Kapel Brooklyn
• 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 1240); the names closely match on the repaired reading — matched on the repaired register name, approved under the owner's review of 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Zojmen Wolf, born 15 October 1911 Kroszyn; Tokyo-issued passport of 24 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. 7786 — 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)
• 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 1708)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Wolf Zojmen, 1946: born about 1912, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco). R…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Wolf Zojmen, born about 1912 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946. The surname is the register's and rare on it, and the given name is close but not the same; a lead, not an identification.
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, their lists and sailings, Shanghai 1945–1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  He was one of the fifty rabbinical students holding Canadian visas issued in Shanghai in October 1941 (visa No. 1265/41). (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• The JDC's Shanghai migration files, 1946–1950 — the index of emigrants from Shanghai (JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 14)
  Wulf Zojmen of the Novogrudok yeshiva is in the JDC's index of its Shanghai emigration cases as Wolf Zojmen, filed among those leaving for Canada or England; the register's compiled line sends him to Canada. (JDC Archives, New York, AR 33/44, the Shanghai migration index)

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