Szyja Bronsztejn

Szyja Bronsztejn received transit visa no. 2069 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 21 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lubavitsch yeshiva, aged 21.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

21

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Lubavitsch Yeshiva

The journey

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

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 290, Szyja Bronsztejn, born 1919, who came from Otwock; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 75 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 22, born at Wyszkow, a yeshiva student, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 13 February 1941.
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  No 118/9; 1919 Wyszkow; Polish
• 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 1345); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Bronsztejn Szyja, born 2 June 1919 Wyszkow; 35 Moulmein Road; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (B-162, 4 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 2069)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Szyja Bronsztejn, 1946: born about 1919, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisc…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Szyja Bronsztejn, born about 1919 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1919, 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 502, 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)
  The list of students of the Lubavitch yeshiva Tomche Tmimim in Shanghai gives his birth as 2 June 1919, in Wyszkow, and his Polish passport as No. B-162/1/20/41. He was listed among the passengers for the General Meigs to the United States in July 1946 with the Polish rabbinical students of the '29 group'. (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 1919 in Wyszkow. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• The JDC's Shanghai migration files, 1946–1950 — the index of emigrants from Shanghai (JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 14)
  Szyja Bronsztejn of the Lubavitch yeshiva is in the JDC's index of its Shanghai emigration cases as Szyje Bronsztein, filed among those leaving for the United States. The identification rests on the archive's rule for Sugihara-route lists: the full name occurs once on the register and the record's place and date fit his route. (JDC Archives, New York, AR 33/44, the Shanghai migration index)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 21 March 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 by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 21 March 1946, lists Szyja Bronsztejn: born 1919 at Wiszow, a yeshiva student, arrived in 1941 from Vilnius by way of Siberia; the year, the town and the trade agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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