Rozencwajg Chil

Rozencwajg Chil received transit visa no. 1955 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lublin yeshiva?, aged 17.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

17

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Lublin Yeshiva?

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 4536, Chil Rozencwejg, born 1923 at Sosnowiec, who had come from Sosnowiec; the year agrees with the register's age.
• 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 1452); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Rozencwajg Chil, born 6 May 1922 Ostrow Mazowiecka; registered 13 December 1941; Tokyo-issued passport of 3 December 1941.
• 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)
  UNRRA's China Office registered him in Shanghai in 1946 among the Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, as a rabbinical student who wished to go on to Palestine. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• 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 1922 in Ostrow. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• HaTzofe, 10 April 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Chil (Jechiel) Rozencwajg, a student of the Lublin yeshiva, is on HaTzofe's list of the yeshiva refugees in Shanghai, printed on 10 April 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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