Lipmanowicz Dydje

Lipmanowicz Dydje received transit visa no. 2104 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 21 August 1940. The register records rabbi - lublin yeshiva, aged 20.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

20

Occupation

Rabbi - Lublin Yeshiva

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 1421) — found on reading the ledger page itself — the ledger reads: Lipmanowicz Lipman (the register's 'Dydje'), RABBI, born 3 November 1919 Lodz; 35 Moulmein Road; passport L-76 issued by the Shanghai consulate 2 December 1941.
• 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 Lodz. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)

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