Moszek Diner

Moszek Diner received transit visa no. 1819 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records shoemaker, aged 54.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Lithuanien

Age in 1940

54

Occupation

Shoemaker

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

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…
  Entry 43 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1885 at Zawichost; relatives abroad: a sister, Fargetsztejn, Box 648, Memphis, Tennessee; a son, Jose Diner, Margil 30, Altes 10, Mexico City.
• 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 129 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 56, born at Zawichost, a shoemaker, who arrived in Japan on 24 February 1941.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Moszek Dyner, 1946: born about 1886, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco).…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Moszek Dyner, born about 1886 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1885, and the two are 1 year apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1946 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 384, image 494, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• The JDC's Shanghai migration files, 1946–1950 — the index of emigrants from Shanghai (JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 14)
  Moszek Dyner, a shoemaker, is in the JDC's index of its Shanghai emigration cases, filed among those leaving for the United States, as the register's compiled line has him. (JDC Archives, New York, AR 33/44, the Shanghai migration index)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 28 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 28 March 1946, lists Moszek Dyner: born 1885 at Zawichost, a shoemaker, arrived in 1941 from Wilno; the year, the town and the trade agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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