Bilgoraj Icek

Bilgoraj Icek received transit visa no. 1921 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 18.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

18

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 1344) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Bilgoraj Icek Leib, born 5 September 1921 Czerwin; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (B-171, 4 December 1941).