Deren Chaskiel

Deren Chaskiel received transit visa no. 2031 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lubavitsch yeshiva, aged 14.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

14

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Lubavitsch Yeshiva

The journey

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

What is known

Mendel Wolff, grandson of Chaskiel Deren (visa No. 2031), visited the Sugihara House museum in Kaunas, where a wall display shows the original visa lists and photographs of Sugihara-visa recipients. Deren is noted as having been one of the last people to receive a Sugihara transit visa.

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…
  9027; Plonsk; b.1919; from Plonsk
• 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…
  #115, age 16, b. Wyszkow, yeshiva, arr 13.2
• 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 1369); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Deren Chackiel, student, born 10 December 1925 Wyszkow, single; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (D-58, 5 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 2031)
• Sugihara House (FB): Mendel Wolff visiting — grandson of DEREN CHASKIEL No.2031, "one of the last people to receive the visa"
• Shanghai Ledger, page 171 (left): entries 1363-1370, registered 13 December 1941 on passports issued by the Shanghai consulate itself 3-5 December 1941: Borensztajn Josef (student, b. 1916 Solec), the Chanowicz siblings of Glebokie — Ger…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 171 (right): entries 1363-1370, registered 13 December 1941 on passports issued by the Shanghai consulate itself 3-5 December 1941: Borensztajn Josef (student, b. 1916 Solec), the Chanowicz siblings of Glebokie — Ge…