Rabinowicz Abram

Rabinowicz Abram received transit visa no. 1749 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student, aged 19.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

19

Occupation

Rabbinical Student

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.

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 4943, Abram Rabinowicz, born 1921, who had come from Łuck; the year agrees with the register's age.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — 'List of Polish war refugees in China', 242 names: the Polish (Sugihara-stream) group in wartime Shanghai, among them Gedalia Zupnik of the Mir, Chaim Ba…
  USHMM 'List of Polish war refugees in China' (242 names); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR33-44 fi… — “List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai and Harbin in the month of May 1941”, compiled by the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
  Named in the Kobe committee's list of persons who left Japan for Shanghai and Harbin in the month of May 1941 (JDC Archives). Rabinowicz Abram, Polish, sailed from Kobe for HARBIN on 12 May 1941. The weight here rests not on the name, which is common, but on the museum's list of Polish war refugees in China, which records an Abram L. Rabinowicz against this line.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Abram-Lajbus Rabinowicz, 1947: born about 1915, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San F…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Abram-Lajbus Rabinowicz, born about 1915 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947. The register's compiled line gives 1921. A lead only: the birth years are 6 years apart, which is more than the archive accepts without the sheet.
• 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 1914 in Kalisz. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)

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