Kunda Zalman

Kunda Zalman received transit visa no. 689 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 26.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

26

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

The journey

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

What is known

Listed in the Sugihara Database among visa recipients of Polish nationality. A Sugihara transit visa was issued on 1 August 1940.

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…
  7551; 1913; from Sarny
• 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…
  171, 28, Olewsk, yeshiva; uncle Rabbi D.Kaminier 1904 S Hamlin Chicago Ill
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — 'List of Polish war refugees in China', 242 names: the Polish (Sugihara-stream) group in wartime Shanghai, among them Gedalia Zupnik of the Mir, Chaim Ba…
  USHMM 'List of Polish war refugees in China' (242 names) — the Polish Sugihara-stream group in wartime Shanghai