Lipszyc Nuta

Lipszyc Nuta received transit visa no. 1924 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student, aged 22.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

22

Occupation

Rabbinical Student

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 7707, Nuta Lipszyc, born 1918 at Wielopole Skarzyskie, who had come from Wielopole Sk.; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — 'List of Polish war refugees in China', 242 names: the Polish (Sugihara-stream) group in wartime Shanghai, among them Gedalia Zupnik of the Mir, Chaim Ba…
  USHMM 'List of Polish war refugees in China' (242 names); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 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)
  The Agudath Israel organisation of refugees from Poland in Shanghai listed him among its members on 24 December 1945: Nuta Lipszyc, born in 1918 in Wielopole, Polish passport No. L-80/2/19/41 issued on 5 December 1941. The UNRRA China Office kept the list with its 1946 registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)

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