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…
  290, b.1919, from Otwock
• 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…
  #75, 22, b. Wyszkow, Yeshiva, arr 13.2, from Vilno
• 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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)