Awram Zalcgendler

Awram Zalcgendler received transit visa no. 867 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - slonimer yeshiva, aged 25.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

25

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Slonimer Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Ruth (20)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Ruth — wife, aged 20

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

• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  Zofojowka; Polish; cous. J. Kotler Hmsonll Worcester Mass
• 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 1500); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Zalcgendler Abram, student, born 3 November 1914, single; 35 Moulmein Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 4 December 1941 — found on reading the page.
• 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 Jan 1941 (line 867)