Jankel Reznik

Jankel Reznik received transit visa no. 81 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records mech engineer, aged 52.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

52

Occupation

Mech Engineer

The journey

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

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 4762, Jankiel Reznik, born 1888 at Łódź, who had come from Warsaw; the year agrees with the register's age.
• 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 267 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 53, born at Rozyszcze, an engineer, Polish; relatives abroad: a sister, Rachil Dawid Isod, Buenos Aires; a cousin, Max Rotman, care of Richard Abramovitz, 342 West 89th Street, New York; a cousin, Mawin Ritter, 1651 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago.
• 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 1187); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Reznik Jankiel, ENGINEER (inzynier), born 1 August 1888 Rozyszcze, married; 1248/8 Rue Lafayette; Tokyo-issued passport of 5 September 1941 (Ser. III 2108) on a British Legation Kaunas certificate of 12 December 1939 (R-41).
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0183, Repatriation — correspondence, with the list of Polish refugees wishing to return to Poland, Shanghai 1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  In 1946 Jankiel Reznik, of 154/7 Alcock Road, was on UNRRA's Shanghai list of thirty-seven Polish refugees registered with it who wished to return to Poland. This page treats him as the man of this entry on the register on the basis of the archive's rule for Sugihara-route lists: the full name occurs once on the register, and the place and date fit. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)

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