Lurje Morduch

Lurje Morduch received transit visa no. 1783 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 15 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

Morduch Luje, born 1919 in Glebokie, is listed with Rabbi Schneerson of 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn as a contact.

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…
  3456; b.1919; from Otwock
• 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…
  #433, 22, b. Molodeczno, yeshiva, arr 2.2, from Vilno
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  9 handwritten 1919 Glebokie; Rabbi Schneerson 770 East Parkway Blyn
• 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 1424) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Lurje Morduch, student, born 28 August 1919 Molodeczno, single; 35 Moulmein Road; passport L-71 issued by the Shanghai consulate 3 December 1941.
• JDC Archives, New York — Shanghai Migration Files, box index (AR 33/44, file 00014): the alphabetical index to the JDC's Shanghai emigration case files, 1946-1950 — some 2,640 case files covering about 5,400 persons, each family under on…
  JDC Shanghai Migration Files, case file no. 6863 — an emigration case file opened for the family in Shanghai after the war; the file itself can be requested from the JDC Archives (names closely match; approved under the owner's standing review)
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 2 Feb 1941 (line 1783)
• Shanghai Ledger, page 178 (left): entries 1419-1426, registered 13 December 1941 on passports issued by the Shanghai consulate itself 1-5 December 1941: Lifszyc Maria (schoolgirl, b. 25 Jun 1925 Warsaw), Lederhendler Szmul Mojsze (studen…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 178 (right): entries 1419-1426, registered 13 December 1941 on passports issued by the Shanghai consulate itself 1-5 December 1941: Lifszyc Maria (schoolgirl, b. 25 Jun 1925 Warsaw), Lederhendler Szmul Mojsze (stude…