Zak Chaim

Zak Chaim received transit visa no. 1776 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 15 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lubavitsch yeshiva, aged 19.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

19

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)
  1921 Biala Podl.; Lubavitcher 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 1476) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Zak Chaim Hersz, born 23 March 1921 Biala Podlaska, single; 35 Moulmein Road; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (Z-54, 4 December 1941), valid to 3 December 1942.