Benjamin Belnish Gelbfisz

Benjamin Belnish Gelbfisz received transit visa no. 589 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lublin yeshiva, aged 19.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

19

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Lublin Yeshiva

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 24 Jan 1941 (line 589)
• 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 1388) — found on reading the ledger page itself — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Gelbfisz Bejnisz (the register's 'Benjamin Beinish Gelbfisz'), student, born 3 May 1921 Siedlce; 35 Moulmein Road; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (G-118, 4 December 1941) — found on reading the page.
• Oral history interview with Benjamin Gelbfish — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 45605. Catalogue: born Aug 7 1921, Siedlce (Lublin, Poland); born Siedlce 7 Aug 1921; Bluman: No.589 Benjamin Gelbfisz, 19, Lublin yes…
  USC Shoah Foundation VHA interview 45605: Benjamin Gelbfish — the interviewee himself — gave a testimony (catalogue: born Aug 7 1921, Siedlce (Lublin, Poland)); born Siedlce 7 Aug 1921; Bluman: No.589 Benjamin Gelbfisz, 19, Lublin yeshiva student; the Shanghai ledger (entry 1388) has him born 3 May 1921 Siedlce — the same man, a date conflict of three months