Kawa Manata

Kawa Manata received transit visa no. 1943 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 30.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

30

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

son Teodor (10)

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Teodor — son, aged 10

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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 1412) — found on reading the ledger page itself — the ledger reads: Kawa Manasza, student, born 16 December 1914 Wyszkow, single; 35 Moulmein Road (the Jewish Recreation Club); Tokyo-issued passport of 3 December 1941 — the ledger resolves the register's puzzling 'Kawa Manata' (Bluman's query) as MANASZA; found on reading the page.
• Rabbi Chuna (Elchonon Yosef) Hertzman, Mirer yeshive in golus — the Mir yeshiva in exile (Brooklyn: the author, 1950). A 28-page Yiddish account by a student of the yeshiva of its road from Mir to Vilna, Keidan, Kobe and Shanghai, with a…
  The memorial list in Rabbi Chuna (Elchonon Yosef) Hertzman's Mirer yeshive in golus (Brooklyn, 1950), p. 5, has R. Menashe Kawe of the Lublin yeshiva, died 21 Adar 5706 (February 1946) in Shanghai. This entry's Menashe Kawe was registered at the Polish consulate in Shanghai; the register places him at Mir and Hertzman at Chachmei Lublin, and that difference is unresolved.
• 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 1914 in Wyszkow. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)

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