Chaskiel Taub

Chaskiel Taub received transit visa no. 557 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records rabbi - lublin yeshiva, aged 27.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

27

Occupation

Rabbi - Lublin Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #558

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  Entry 332 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 28, born at Stofnica, a rabbi; relatives abroad: a father, S. Taub, 105 Ross Street, Brooklyn, New York; a brother, Rabbi Taub, Lilienblum 11, Tel Aviv.
• M.S. Hie Maru, Kobe 4 May – Yokohama 7 May – Seattle 18 May 1941, sheet 6 of 11 — transcribed for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild by David Rosen
  Hie Maru passenger no. 117; 27y 11m; Rabbi; b. Stopnica, Poland; last residence Vilnius, Lithuania; US visa Q.I.V.6277, issued Yokohama, 4-30-1941; to Brooklyn, N.Y.; joining Father, Szoel Taub, 105 Ross St. Brooklyn, N.Y.; nearest relative left behind: Sister, Malke Viszkowska, Ofwock Niecala 6 Poland
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Chaskiel Taub, 1941: born about 1914, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattl…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Chaskiel Taub, born about 1914 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1913, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  He left Yokohama on the Hie Maru on 7 May 1941, bound for the USA (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Taub Chaskiel, ″ Cypora, ″ Icek". (Hie Maru, Yokohama, 7 May 1941.)
• 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 Jcheskiel Taub, aged 29, of Warsaw, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• The Passengers, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Chaskiel Taub — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels A…
• Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Chaskiel Taub — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists…

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