Rachmil Juda Mejer Kalisz

Rachmil Juda Mejer Kalisz received transit visa no. 606 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records rabbi, aged 38.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

38

Occupation

Rabbi

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #1012

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 3120, Rachmiel Juda Mejer Kalisz, born 1901 in Poland, who had come from Otwock; the year agrees with the register's age.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Rachmil Juda Majer Kalisz, 1947: born about 1902, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Rachmil Juda Majer Kalisz, born about 1902 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1902, and the two are 0 years 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 1947 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 387, image 714, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• 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 1901 in Przysucha. His wife Ita is listed with him, and their son Menachem. (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 Rachmil-Juda-M Kalisz, 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 members of the United Board of Rabbis and Rabbinical Colleges, Shanghai (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48661)
  Rachmiel J M Kalisz is named on the list of members of the United Board of Rabbis and Rabbinical Colleges in Shanghai, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This is the only line on the register with this given name and surname; the Board was the body of the Polish rabbis and yeshiva students who reached Shanghai from Kobe in 1941, and their families, the route the register records for this line.

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