Rubin Mojsze

Rubin Mojsze received transit visa no. 1723 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lubavitsch yeshiva, aged 21.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

21

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Lubavitsch Yeshiva

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  No 132/23; 1919 Slonim; Polish; uncle J.Ginsburg, 10527 Englewood Ave. Cleveland Ohio
• 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)
  The list of students of the Lubavitch yeshiva Tomche Tmimim in Shanghai gives his birth as 27 June 1919, in Slonim, and his Polish passport as No. R-94/2/20/41. He was listed among the passengers for the General Meigs to the United States in July 1946 with the Polish rabbinical students of the '29 group'. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, Mizrachi members list and the United Board of Rabbis' birth-data pages, Shanghai 1945–46 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  The United Board of Rabbis and Rabbinical Colleges in Shanghai listed him among its members after the war, born in 1919 in Slonim. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• Davar, 19 March 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Mojsze Rubin and Hirsz (Zvi) Rubin, students of the Lubavitch yeshiva, sent greetings from Shanghai to Moshe Rapalanski of Hadera and the Swadlow family; Davar printed them on 19 March 1942 among the greetings from Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register lists Mowsza Rubin, aged 22, born at Slonim, a yeshiva student, who reached Japan from Vilno on 13 February 1941. Sugihara's ledger lost the first letter of his surname; the register has it in full.
• 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 Mojsze Rubin, born in 1919, a yeshiva student of Słonim, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and the town agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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