Franz Hollender

Franz Hollender received transit visa no. 698 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records mir yeshiva, aged 26.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

German

Age in 1940

26

Occupation

Mir Yeshiva

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Where this comes from

• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  1914 Wien; Germany
• Students of the Mir yeshiva in Shanghai: three lists of the students of the Rabbinical College "Mirrer Yeshiva" (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, lists 48681, 48682 and 48654)
  Franz Hollender is named on two of the three lists of the students of the Mir yeshiva in Shanghai indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The name occurs once on the register, and the lists are of the yeshiva that came from Vilna by way of Kobe to Shanghai in 1941, the route the register records for its students.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 31 March 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 31 March 1946, lists Franz Hollaender: born 1914 at Wien, a student of the Mir yeshiva, arrived in 1941 from Warsaw; 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 Franc Holender, born in 1914, of Vienna, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and the town agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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