Krawiec Menachim

Krawiec Menachim received transit visa no. 2112 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 21 August 1940. The register records rabbi - klecker yeshiva, aged 32.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

32

Occupation

Rabbi - Klecker Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Rysal (19)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Rysal — wife, aged 19

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

Where this comes from

• hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: KRAWIEC Menachim Mendel
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 164: KRAWIEC Menachim Mendel, file no. 7751. Match: register No.2112 'Krawiec Menachim', and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree. NOTE: the ind
• JDC Archives, New York — Shanghai Migration Files, box index (AR 33/44, file 00014): the alphabetical index to the JDC's Shanghai emigration case files, 1946-1950 — some 2,640 case files covering about 5,400 persons, each family under on…
  JDC Shanghai Migration Files, case file no. 7751 — an emigration case file opened for the family in Shanghai after the war; the file itself can be requested from the JDC Archives
• MJH eMuseum object 2012.28.12 (Gift of the Krawiec family): Letter of recommendation from Rabbi Seltzer for Menachim Mendel Krawiec, full-resolution scan 1/1 (media 30070)
• MJH eMuseum object 2012.28.6 (Gift of the Krawiec family): International Certificate of Inoculation and Vaccination of Malka Krawiec, full-resolution scan 1/1 (media 30063)
• MJH eMuseum object 2012.28.11 (Gift of the Krawiec family): Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem contract with Rabbi Menachim Mendel Krawiec, full-resolution scan 1/1 (media 30069)
• MJH eMuseum object 2012.28.16 (Gift of the Krawiec family): Student ID card of Menachem Mendel Kraviec, full-resolution scan 1/2 (media 30074)
• MJH eMuseum object 2012.28.18 (Gift of the Krawiec family): Polish Residents' Association in China ID card of Menachim Mendel Krawiec, full-resolution scan 1/2 (media 30077)
• MJH eMuseum object 2012.28.2 (Gift of the Krawiec family): Memo from railroad to Menachem Mendel Kraviec, full-resolution scan 1/1 (media 30057)
• MJH eMuseum object 2012.28.9 (Gift of the Krawiec family): Letter of recommendation from Rabbi Ch. L. Szmuelowicz for Menachim Mendel Krawiec, full-resolution scan 1/1 (media 30067)
• MJH eMuseum object 2012.28.14 (Gift of the Krawiec family): SS General Meigs identification card of Ryszel Krawiec, full-resolution scan 1/1 (media 30072)
• MJH eMuseum object 2012.28.15 (Gift of the Krawiec family): SS General Meigs identification card of Menachem Krawiec, full-resolution scan 1/1 (media 30073)
• MJH eMuseum object 2012.28.3 (Gift of the Krawiec family): Japanese ID card of Menachim Mendel Krawiec, full-resolution scan 1/1 (media 30058)
• MJH eMuseum object 2012.28.5 (Gift of the Krawiec family): US Consulate General affidavit in lieu of passport of Ryszel and Malka Krawiec, full-resolution scan 1/2 (media 30061)
• MJH eMuseum object 2012.28.8 (Gift of the Krawiec family): Letter of recommendation from Rabbi M. Ashkenazi for Menachim Mendel Krawiec, full-resolution scan 1/1 (media 30066)

and 6 further records, shown on the full entry.