Chil Rozenfeld

Chil Rozenfeld received transit visa no. 941 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - telshe yeshiva, aged 25.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

25

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Telshe Yeshiva

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Harbin.

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…
  8579, Lodz, 1917, from Lodz
• 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…
  263, 25, Sosnowiec; cousin Rabbi Halberstam 267 Stanton str NY
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR33-44 file 53 — “List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai and Harbin in the month of May 1941”, compiled by the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Comm…
  Named in the Kobe committee's list of persons who left Japan for Shanghai and Harbin in the month of May 1941 (JDC Archives). Rozenfeld Chil, Polish, sailed from Kobe for HARBIN on 24 May 1941. He is the only Chil among the register's Rozenfeld and Rosenfeld lines, and the Kobe relatives list gives Sosnowiec, aged 25.