Aron Kopelowicz

Aron Kopelowicz received transit visa no. 973 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records rabbi - slonimer yeshiva, aged 33.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

33

Occupation

Rabbi - Slonimer Yeshiva

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…
  2919, Slonim, b.1907, from Slonim
• 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…
  No.91, age 34, b. Slonim, Yeshiva, arr 24.1.
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  Slonimer Yesivah; 1914 Slonim; 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 1415) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Kopelowicz Aron, RABBI, born 29 July 1907 Slonim, single; 35 Moulmein Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 3 December 1941.
• 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 24 Jan 1941 (line 973)