Mowsze Sapoczkinski

Mowsze Sapoczkinski received transit visa no. 1839 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lubavitsch yeshiva, aged 16.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Lithuanien

Age in 1940

16

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)
  1923 Suwalki; Lubavitcher Yeshiva
• 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 1839)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Mowsza Sapockinski, 1946: born about 1923, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franci…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Mowsza Sapockinski, born about 1923 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1924, 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 458, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• 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)
  UNRRA's China Office registered him in Shanghai in 1946 among the Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, as a rabbinical student who had arrived in China in August 1941 and wished to go on to Palestine. The list of students of the Lubavitch yeshiva Tomche Tmimim in Shanghai gives his birth as 15 October 1923, in Suwalki, and his Polish passport as No. S-241/1/15/41. 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 1923 in Suwalki. (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)
  Mowsze Sapoczkinski of the Lubavitch yeshiva 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)
• 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…
  Mowsze Sapoczkinski of the Lubavitch yeshiva registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai on 13 December 1941 as Mowsza Sapoćkiński, a student born at Suwałki on 15 October 1923, living at 35 Moulmein Road. (Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archives, the Shanghai consulate's register, digitised by the Library of Congress.)
• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register lists Mowsza Sapockinski, aged 18, born at Suwalki, a yeshiva student, who reached Japan on 13 February 1941. Sugihara's ledger writes the name Sapoczkinski; the register writes Sapockinski.

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