Mojzesz Abe Kamien

Mojzesz Abe Kamien received transit visa no. 821 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - telshe yeshiva, aged 23.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

23

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Telshe Yeshiva

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 132 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 25, born at Makow; relatives abroad: cousins, I. Mosak, Grenshav 3610, Chicago, and Sz. Noe, Zion Ariel 4923, Montevideo.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Mejzesz-Aba Kamien, 1946: born about 1916, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franci…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Mejzesz-Aba Kamien, born about 1916 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1917, and the two are 1 year 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 1946 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 385, image 485, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, their lists and sailings, Shanghai 1945–1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  UNRRA's China Office registered him in Shanghai in 1946 among the Polish rabbis and rabbinical students; he had arrived in China in August 1941 and wished to go on to Palestine. In 1946 he was among the students accepted by the Rabbinical College of Telshe in Cleveland. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• 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 1916 in Makow Mazowiecki. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• The JDC's Shanghai migration files, 1946–1950 — the index of emigrants from Shanghai (JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 14)
  Mojżesz Kamień, the Telz yeshiva student, is in the JDC's index of its Shanghai emigration cases, filed among those leaving for the United States, where the register's compiled line sends him. The identification rests on the archive's rule for Sugihara-route lists: the full name occurs once on the register and the record's place and date fit his route. (JDC Archives, New York, AR 33/44, the Shanghai migration index)
• 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 Mojzesk-Abe Kamien, rabbinical student, arrived in China in Aug 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 Aug 1941 is the route this line is recorded as taking.
• 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 Mojzesz Kamien, born in 1916, of Maków, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and the town agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• The numbered Sugihara visa list, the page of 2 August 1940 carrying Nos. 795 to 865 (among them No. 805, Szaps Jaskolka), photographed beside a ruler.

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