Hochlerer Szloma

Hochlerer Szloma received transit visa no. 1742 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lubavitsch yeshiva, aged 20.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

20

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 117/8; 1920 Wojslawice; Polish
• 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 1401); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Hochlerer Szloma Nechemia, born 18 March 1920 Wojslawice; 35 Moulmein Road (the Jewish Recreation Club, where the yeshiva students lived); Tokyo-issued passport of 5 December 1941.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Szloma Nechemia Hochlerer, 1946: born about 1920, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Szloma Nechemia Hochlerer, born about 1920 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1920, and the two are 0 years apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1946 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 384, image 482, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• 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)
  UNRRA's China Office registered him in Shanghai in 1946 among the Polish rabbis and rabbinical students; he had arrived in China on 20 August 1941 and wished to go on to Palestine. The list of students of the Lubavitch yeshiva Tomche Tmimim in Shanghai gives his birth as 18 February 1920, in Wojslawice, and his Polish passport as No. H-64/2/23/41. 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 1920 in Wojlawice. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• Polish rabbis and rabbinical students registered with UNRRA, Shanghai (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, China Office;… — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48676
  The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Shanghai register of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, has Szloma-N Hochlerer, rabbinical student, arrived in China in 30 Aug 1941, wishing to go to Palestine. The name occurs once on the register; the list is of the refugees who came from Vilna by way of Kobe, and an arrival in Shanghai in 30 Aug 1941 is the route this line is recorded as taking.
• List of members of the United Board of Rabbis and Rabbinical Colleges, Shanghai (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48661)
  Szloma N Hochlerer is named on the list of members of the United Board of Rabbis and Rabbinical Colleges in Shanghai, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The name occurs once on the register; the Board was the body of the Polish rabbis and yeshiva students who reached Shanghai from Kobe in 1941, and their families, the route the register records for this line.
• Davar, 19 March 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  From Shanghai Szloma Hochlerer sent greetings to Fajwel Hochlerer in Safed and Chana Hochlerer in Tel Aviv; Davar printed them on 19 March 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 31 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 31 March 1946, lists Szloma Hochlerer: born 1920 at Weslawice, a yeshiva student, arrived in 1941 from Vilnius; the year and the trade agree with the archive's compiled register (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 Szloma Nechemia Hochlerer, aged 21, born at Wajslowice, a yeshiva student, who reached Japan on 13 February 1941.

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