Bukiet Chaim

Visa no. 1746 · Kaunas, 14 August 1940

Bukiet Chaim received transit visa no. 1746 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lubavitsch yeshiva, aged 20.

Documents

Document — Bukiet Chaim — Shanghai Ledger, page 169 (left): entries 1346-1353, registered 13 December 1941 and the days around it, all on Polish passports issued by the Embassy in Tokyo in late November and early December 1941 — the yeshiva students Bukiet (b. 1919 Wislica), Blat (b. 1918 Przytyk) and Breskin (b. 1915 Slonim) all living at 35 Moulmein Road, the Jewish Recreation Club; the tailor Bargman (b. 1905 Biala Podlaska) and the three Brandsztejn brothers of Warsaw (Adolf, dental technician, b. 1906; Michal, b. 1902; Wladyslaw, commercial agent, b. 1909) at 58 Chusan Road; the trader Blass (b. 1904 Warsaw) at 912/17 Seward Road. Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register

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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.

What is known

Chaim Majer Bukielt, born 1919 in Wislica, is recorded on the Mirer Yeshivah list with Rabbi Schneerson of 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn noted as a contact.

Rabbi Schneerson 770 [Eastern] Parkway Bklyn

Where this comes from

The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad gives as relatives abroad a cousin, M. Kac, 432 Stone Avenue, Brooklyn.
JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
1919 Wislica; Mir Yeshiva
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 1346) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Bukiet Chaim Majer, student, Jewish, born 20 August 1919 Wislica, single; registered 13 December 1941; living at 35 Moulmein Road — the Jewish Recreation Club, where the yeshiva students were housed; Tokyo-issued passport valid to 3 December 1942.
Oral history interview with Chaim Bukiet — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 11820. Catalogue: born Aug 20 1919, Wieliczka (Kraków, Poland); born Wieliczka 20 Aug 1919; Bluman: No.1746… — the interviewee may be living
USC Shoah Foundation VHA interview 11820: Chaim Bukiet — the interviewee himself — gave a testimony (catalogue: born Aug 20 1919, Wieliczka (Kraków, Poland)); born Wieliczka 20 Aug 1919; Bluman: No.1746 Bukiet Chaim, 20, Lubavitch yeshiva student
"California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Chaim Majer Bukiet, 1946: born about 1919, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franci…
FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Chaim Majer Bukiet, born about 1919 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 1 year 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 502, 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)
The list of students of the Lubavitch yeshiva Tomche Tmimim in Shanghai gives his birth as 20 August 1919, in Wislica, and his Polish passport as No. B-169/1/21/41. 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 Wislica. (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 Chaim Majer Bukiet, rabbinical student, arrived in China in Aug 1941, wishing to go to the United States. 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 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)
Chaim M Bukiet 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.
La-karov ve-la-rachok, 21 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 21 March 1946, lists Chaim Majer Bukiet: born 1919 at Wislicka, a student of the Mir yeshiva, arrived from Vilnius by way of Siberia; 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 Chaim Majer Bukiet, aged 22, born at Wislica, a yeshiva student, who reached Japan on 3 February 1941.
JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
Shanghai Ledger, page 169 (left): entries 1346-1353, registered 13 December 1941 and the days around it, all on Polish passports issued by the Embassy in Tokyo in late November and early December 1941 — the yeshiva students Bukiet (b. 19…
Shanghai Ledger, page 169 (right): entries 1346-1353, registered 13 December 1941 and the days around it, all on Polish passports issued by the Embassy in Tokyo in late November and early December 1941 — the yeshiva students Bukiet (b. 1…

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