Borensztein Josef
Visa no. 1741 · Kaunas, 14 August 1940
Borensztein Josef received transit visa no. 1741 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. The register records yeshiva, aged 24.
What the register records
- Nationality as recorded
- Polnisch
- Age in 1940
- 24
- Occupation
- Yeshiva
The journey
Destination given in the Kitade-Bluman list: Canada.
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 519, Josef Borensztejn, born 1901 at Serock, who came from Warszawa; the year, 1901, is fifteen years earlier than the register's compiled age (24 in 1940) suggests, so the archive shows the entry as a lead, not as an identification. - 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 65 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 25, born at Solec, a yeshiva student, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 3 February 1941. - JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
No 32/137; 1916 Solec n/W; Polish - 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 3 Feb 1941 (line 1741) - "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Josef Borensztajn, 1946: born about 1916, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francis…
FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Josef Borensztajn, born about 1916 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946. The register's compiled line gives 1916. A lead only: the register carries 2 lines of this name, and the index entry cannot be assigned to one of them without the manifest sheet.
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