Krawiec Menachim

Visa no. 2112 · Kaunas, 21 August 1940

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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.

Documents

Document — Krawiec Menachim — 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)

Document — Krawiec Menachim — 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)

Document — Krawiec Menachim — 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)

Document — Krawiec Menachim — 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)

Document — Krawiec Menachim — MJH eMuseum object 2012.28.16 (Gift of the Krawiec family): Student ID card of Menachem Mendel Kraviec, full-resolution scan 2/2 (media 30075)

Document — Krawiec Menachim — 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)

Document — Krawiec Menachim — 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 2/2 (media 30078)

Document — Krawiec Menachim — 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)

Document — Krawiec Menachim — 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)

Document — Krawiec Menachim — 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)

Document — Krawiec Menachim — 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)

Document — Krawiec Menachim — 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)

Document — Krawiec Menachim — 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)

Document — Krawiec Menachim — 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 2/2 (media 30062)

Document — Krawiec Menachim — 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)

Document — Krawiec Menachim — MJH eMuseum object 2012.28.4 (Gift of the Krawiec family): US Consulate General affidavit in lieu of passport of Menachem M. Krawiec, full-resolution scan 1/2 (media 30059)

Document — Krawiec Menachim — MJH eMuseum object 2012.28.4 (Gift of the Krawiec family): US Consulate General affidavit in lieu of passport of Menachem M. Krawiec, full-resolution scan 2/2 (media 30060)

Document — Krawiec Menachim — MJH eMuseum object 2012.28.10 (Gift of the Krawiec family): Letter of recommendation from Rabbi Abraham Ch. Lerman for Menachim Mendel Krawiec, full-resolution scan 1/1 (media 30068)

Document — Krawiec Menachim — MJH eMuseum object 2012.28.17 (Gift of the Krawiec family): Marriage certificate of Menachim Mendel Krawiek and Ryszel Berek, full-resolution scan 1/1 (media 30076)

Document — Krawiec Menachim — MJH eMuseum object 2012.28.1 (Gift of the Krawiec family): Memo from railroad to Menachem Mendel Kraviec, full-resolution scan 1/1 (media 30056)

Document — Krawiec Menachim — MJH eMuseum object 2012.28.7 (Gift of the Krawiec family): Polish passport of Menachim Mendel Krawiec, full-resolution scan 1/2 (media 30064)

Document — Krawiec Menachim — MJH eMuseum object 2012.28.7 (Gift of the Krawiec family): Polish passport of Menachim Mendel Krawiec, full-resolution scan 2/2 (media 30065)

Document — Krawiec Menachim — MJH eMuseum object 2012.28.19 (Gift of the Krawiec family): Polish Residents' Association in China ID card of Ryszel Krawiec, full-resolution scan 1/2 (media 30079)

Document — Krawiec Menachim — MJH eMuseum object 2012.28.19 (Gift of the Krawiec family): Polish Residents' Association in China ID card of Ryszel Krawiec, full-resolution scan 2/2 (media 30080)

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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

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
"California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Menachem Mendel Krawiec, 1946: born about 1907, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San F…
FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Menachem Mendel Krawiec, born about 1907 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1908, and the two are 1 year 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 385, image 481, 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)
UNRRA's China Office registered him in Shanghai in 1946 among the Polish rabbis and rabbinical students; he had arrived in China in September 1941 and wished to go on to Palestine. He was one of the fifty rabbinical students holding Canadian visas issued in Tokyo in September 1941 (visa No. 527). (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
Polish rabbis and rabbinical students registered with UNRRA, Shanghai (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, China Office;… — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48676
The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Shanghai register of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, has Menachim-Mendel Krawiec, rabbinical student, arrived in China in Sep 1941, wishing to go to Palestine. The name occurs once on the register; the list is of the refugees who came from Vilna by way of Kobe, and an arrival in Shanghai in Sep 1941 is the route this line is recorded as taking.
List of persons processed by the American Joint Distribution Committee's migration department, Shanghai, 1–30 April 1946 (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48686)
The American Joint Distribution Committee's migration department in Shanghai processed Menachim Krawiec for emigration in April 1946, according to its list for that month, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This is the only line on the register with this given name and surname, and the register already records this line's arrival in Shanghai.
La-karov ve-la-rachok, 11 April 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 11 April 1946, lists Menachim Krawiec: born 1907 at Siniawka, a yeshiva student, arrived in 1941 from Kaunas; the year and the trade agree with the archive's compiled register (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Menachem Mendel Krawiec, a student born in 1907, of Kleck, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and both his given names agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem 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)

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