Nelkenbaum Lejba

Visa no. 1884 · Kaunas, 17 August 1940

Nelkenbaum Lejba received transit visa no. 1884 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. The register records lubavitsch yeshiva, aged 39.

Documents

Document — Nelkenbaum Lejba — The HIE, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Lejbus Nelkenbaum — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 260, frame 594 of the file unit “Mar. 1, 1941, SS Tyee-Apr. 22, 1941, SS Utocarbon” (NAID 553887853). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.

Document — Nelkenbaum Lejba — The HIE, arriving at Seattle in 1941: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Lejbus Nelkenbaum — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 260, frame 593 of the file unit “Mar. 1, 1941, SS Tyee-Apr. 22, 1941, SS Utocarbon” (NAID 553887853). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded: Polnisch
Age in 1940: 39
Occupation: Lubavitsch Yeshiva

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Where this comes from

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 123 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 54, born at Parczew, a yeshiva student, who arrived in Japan on 14 January 1941.
JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
No 30; 1901 Parczew; Polish; wife G.Nelkenbaum, 170 3rd str. Brooklyn N.Y.
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 14 Jan 1941 (line 1884)
"Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Lejbus Nelkenbaum, 1941: born about 1907, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Se…
FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Lejbus Nelkenbaum, born about 1907 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The surname is the register's and rare on it, and the given name is close but not the same; a lead, not an identification.
The HIE, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Lejbus Nelkenbaum — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arri…
The HIE, arriving at Seattle in 1941: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Lejbus Nelkenbaum — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Pas…

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