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…
  26, Nowogrodek, Yeshiva, 3.2
• 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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', page 2 — Kamakura Maru, Shanghai 16 August 1942: officials (the Rome…
  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.