Lew Pikielny

Lew Pikielny received transit visa no. 975 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - nowogroded yeshiva, aged 25.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

25

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Nowogroded Yeshiva

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 26, born at Nowogrodek, a yeshiva student, who arrived in Japan on 3 February 1941.
• 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 1198) — found on reading the ledger page itself — the ledger reads: Pikielny Lejb (the register's 'Lew Pikielny'?), student, born 18 March 1915 Nowogrodek, single; Tokyo-issued passport of 27 August 1941 on a British Legation Kaunas certificate of 1 August 1940 (P-204) — name-form match only, tentative. — owner reviewed 23 Aug 2026, held
• Tadeusz Romer papers, Library and Archives Canada, MG 31 D 68, vol. 2 (microfilm reel C-10451, frame 1088): 'Lista obywateli polskich ewakuowanych z Dalekiego Wschodu… — cited by link only (Canadiana Heritage); frame image not republished
  Named on the Kamakura Maru evacuation list, 16 August 1942 (evacuee no. 90, 'PIKIELNY Lejb') — the register's 'Lew Pikielny'; the same name-form appears in the Shanghai consular ledger (entry 1198) — name-form match, tentative
• Library and Archives Canada, Tadeusz Romer fonds, MG 31 D 68, reel C-10452, frame 627, via Canadiana Heritage — the same list, page 3, entries 23-32 (Lewkowicz, Lifszyc brother and sister, Mann, Marber, Matecka, Merzel, Pikielny, Pinus,…
  On the Polish Embassy's list of 41 Polish refugees (Romer's Shanghai-period papers) (Romer fonds, reel C-10452, frame 627, entry 30): PIKIELNY Lejba, uczeń jeszybotu (yeshiva student), born 1915; passport 404/729/26/VIII/41, Tokio 20.8.41, do 8.12.43 — Holds no visa. Wishes to go to the Union of South Africa, where he has family.
• HaMashkif, 18 and 19 September 1941, and HaBoker, 25 September 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Lew (Arie Leib) Pikielny, a student of the Nowogródek yeshiva, sent word to his sister Bila Pikielny-Fuks at Na'an, near Rehovot: from Japan in September 1941 (HaMashkif, 18 September; HaBoker, 25 September) and from Shanghai in the greetings Davar printed on 19 March 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 3 October 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed in La-karov ve-la-rachok on 3 October 1946, has Leujba Pikielny, born in 1915 at Nowogrodek, a student, who came in 1941 from Lithuania by way of Siberia. Sugihara's ledger writes his given name Lew; this list writes Leujba.

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