Lederhendler Szmul

Lederhendler Szmul received transit visa no. 2025 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lubavitsch yeshiva, aged 20.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

20

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Lubavitsch Yeshiva

The journey

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

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…
  Entry 410 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 21, born at Ryki, a yeshiva student, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 14 February 1941.
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  No 120; 1920 Ryki; Polish; uncle S.Guterman, New York, Washington 271
• 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 1420); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Lederhendler Szmul Mojsze, student, born 2 January 1920 Ryki, single; 35 Moulmein Road; passport L-79 issued by the Shanghai consulate 3 December 1941.
• 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 Feb 1941 (line 2025)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Szmul Mojsze Lederhendler, 1946: born about 1920, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Szmul Mojsze Lederhendler, born about 1920 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1920, and the two are 0 years apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1946 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 384, image 474, read by the archive on 20 September 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)
  Szmul Mojsze Lederhendler, born on 2 January 1920 in Ryki, was one of the twenty-seven students of the Lubavitch yeshiva Tomche Tmimim whose entry to the United States the Secretary of State approved early in 1946. He was then in Tientsin, at the Rich Hotel, and UNRRA brought him down to Shanghai by sea in late March 1946 to travel with the group. His Polish passport was No. L-79/1/21/41, and he was listed among the passengers for the General Meigs to the United States with the '29 group' on 2 July 1946. (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 1920 in Ryki. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 11 April 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed in La-karov ve-la-rachok on 11 April 1946, has him as Szmul-Moszek Lederhandter, born in 1920 at Ryki, a yeshiva student who came in 1941.

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