Malin Nechemija

Malin Nechemija received transit visa no. 939 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student, aged 21.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

21

Occupation

Rabbinical Student

The journey

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

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 3926, Nechamia Malin, born 1918 at Brześć, who had come from Brześć; the year agrees with the register's age and Brześć agrees with the archive's other records.
• 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 447 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 23, born at Brzesc, a rabbi, who travelled from Vilnius.
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  1918 Brzesc; Polish
• 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 1487); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Malin Nechemia, born 1918 Brzesc; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (M-125, 2 December 1941).
• HIAS Shanghai (the Far Eastern Jewish Central Information Bureau for Emigrants, M. Birman, manager) to HIAS New York: the list of refugees who left Shanghai during August 1946 — sixteen names on the first sheet, all sailing on 11 August…
  HIAS Shanghai's list of refugees who left Shanghai during August 1946 names a 'Malin, Nechamia' among the sixteen who sailed on 11 August 1946 aboard the S.S. Marine Lynx for the United States. Under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 a name on a list of the Sugihara refugees' own route counts as a corroboration when the full name occurs once on the register and the record's place and date fit the route; all three hold here, and the line is attached on that basis.
• World Jewish Congress, London: 'List of Poles in Shanghai who are looking for their relatives in Poland', 25 December 1945 — a typed sheet of twenty-seven lines for twenty-one petitioners in Shanghai, each with the relative sought and th…
  The World Jewish Congress's list of Poles in Shanghai looking for relatives in Poland, dated 25 December 1945 (Arolsen Archives 3.1.1.3, DocID 78796209, read online 18 September 2026), names a 'Malin, Mejer Nechama' twice as a petitioner in Shanghai — looking for Chaim Malin, last at Wilno, and for Abraham Kodner, last at Brest-Litovsk. Whether that is one petitioner with two given names or two men typed as one, the sheet does not show; HIAS's departure list of August 1946 has a Meyer Malin and a Nechamia Malin as two people. Under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 a name on a list of the Sugihara refugees' own route counts as a corroboration when the full name occurs once on the register and the record's place and date fit the route; all three hold here, and the line is attached on that basis.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Nechemia Malin, 1946: born about 1919, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco)…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Nechemia Malin, born about 1919 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the Marine Lynx. The register's compiled line gives 1919, 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 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 384, image 30, 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, as a rabbinical student. He left Shanghai for San Francisco on the Marine Lynx on Sunday 11 August 1946. (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 1918 in Brzesc. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)

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