Lejb Dichter

Lejb Dichter received transit visa no. 848 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records teacher, aged 30.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

30

Occupation

Teacher

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Chaja (24)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Chaja — wife, aged 24

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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 7085, Lejb Dichter, born 1900 at Wlodzimierz, who had come from Gdynia; Włodzimierz agrees with what the archive already holds, and his wife Chaja stands on the line above, though the list's year is ten years earlier than the register's compiled 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 36 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1909 at Wlodzimierz; relatives abroad: a brother, D. Dicken, 18403 Indiana, Detroit, Michigan; a sister, Basia Holzman, 672 Howard Avenue, Brooklyn, New York; an uncle, M. Rawin, 429 Prescott, Toledo, Ohio.
• The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…
  Entry 110 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 32, born at Wlodzimierz, a clerk, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 February 1941.
• JDC Shanghai migration file: DICHTER Lejb
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 19: DICHTER Lejb, file no. 5779. Match: register No.848 'Lejb Dichter', and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree. NOTE: the index carries no age
• 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 1292) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Dichter Lejb, sorter by trade, born 1909 Wlodzimierz, married; 118 Route des Soeurs; Tokyo-issued passport of 13 November 1941. — the ledger reads: Dichter Lejb, inspector (brakarz), born 1909 Wlodzimierzec, married; 118/11/3 Route des Soeurs; passport issued by the Shanghai consulate 13 November 1941 (D-53, Ser. III 1693).
• JDC Archives, New York — Shanghai Migration Files, box index (AR 33/44, file 00014): the alphabetical index to the JDC's Shanghai emigration case files, 1946-1950 — some 2,640 case files covering about 5,400 persons, each family under on…
  JDC Shanghai Migration Files, case file no. 5779 — an emigration case file opened for the family in Shanghai after the war; the file itself can be requested from the JDC Archives
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 25 Feb 1941 (line 848)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Leib or Lejb Dichter, 1947: born about 1909, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Fran…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Leib or Lejb Dichter, born about 1909 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the General W. H. Gordon. The register's compiled line gives 1909, 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 394, image 266, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 28 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: 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 28 March 1946, lists Lejb Dichter: born 1909 at Wlodzimierzec, in the wood trade, arrived in 1941 from Gdynia; the year agrees with the Kobe community's lists, but the town and trade printed here differ from theirs (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• 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.
• Shanghai Ledger, page 162 (left): entries 1290-1297, registered 17-20 November 1941 on Tokyo-issued passports of 10-17 November 1941: Kac Aron Mordka (jeweller, b. 4 Aug 1909 Lodz) and Kac Jakub Moszek (b. 15 Dec 1918), Dichter Lejb (sor…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 162 (right): entries 1290-1297, registered 17-20 November 1941 on Tokyo-issued passports of 10-17 November 1941: Kac Aron Mordka (jeweller, b. 4 Aug 1909 Lodz) and Kac Jakub Moszek (b. 15 Dec 1918), Dichter Lejb (so…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 163 (left): entries 1298-1305, registered 20 November 1941 on passports issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (series III) 7-17 November 1941: the Kozakiewicz family of Kowel — Sura (b. 1895), Dawid (student, b. 1…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 163 (right): entries 1298-1305, registered 20 November 1941 on passports issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (series III) 7-17 November 1941: the Kozakiewicz family of Kowel — Sura (b. 1895), Dawid (student, b.…

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