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 Registered in Kobe for 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… 519, Wysoka, b.1901, from Warszawa 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…#65, 25, b. Solec, yeshiva, arr 3.2, from Vilno 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) Open this entry in the full register →
Borensztein Josef is one of 2,140 people recorded in the surviving register of the transit
visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
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