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.

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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

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

Rabbi Schneerson 770 [Eastern] Parkway Bklyn

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 3456, Morduch Lurja, born 1919, who had come from Otwock; the year agrees with the register's age.
• 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…
  Entry 433 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 22, born at Molodeczno, a yeshiva student, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 2 February 1941.
• 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 — the ledger reads: 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)
• 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 Molodeczno, and his Polish passport as No. L-74/1/20/41. 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 Molodeszno. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• The JDC's Shanghai migration files, 1946–1950 — the index of emigrants from Shanghai (JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 14)
  Morduch Lurje of the Lubavitch yeshiva is in the JDC's index of its Shanghai emigration cases. The identification rests on the archive's rule for Sugihara-route lists: the full name occurs once on the register and the record's place and date fit his route. (JDC Archives, New York, AR 33/44, the Shanghai migration index)
• 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)
  Morduch Lurje 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.
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
• Shanghai Ledger, page 178 (left): entries 1419-1426, registered 13 December 1941 on passports issued by the Shanghai consulate itself 1-5 Dec… — most at 35 Moulmein Road. Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register
• Shanghai Ledger, page 178 (right): entries 1419-1426, registered 13 December 1941 on passports issued by the Shanghai consulate itself 1-5 De… — most at 35 Moulmein Road. Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register

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