Nelkenbaum Lejba

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

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…
  No.123, age 54, b. Parczew, Yeshiva, arr. 14.1.
• 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)