Bukiet Chaim

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.

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.

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…
  cous.M.Kac Brooklyn Stone av.432
• 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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 Bukiet Chaim, 20, Lubavitch yes…
  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
• 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…
• Catalogue still for the oral history of Chaim Bukiet — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 11820 (the archive's public catalogue frame, 352x240); links to the testimony at vha.usc.edu/testimony/11820