Chaskiel Taub

Chaskiel Taub received transit visa no. 557 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records rabbi - lublin yeshiva, aged 27.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

27

Occupation

Rabbi - Lublin Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #558

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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…
  332; 28; Stofnica; Rabbi; Father S.Taub 105 Ross Str Brooklyn NY, brother Rabbi Taub Lilienblum 11 Tel Aviv
• M.S. Hie Maru, Kobe 4 May – Yokohama 7 May – Seattle 18 May 1941, sheet 6 of 11 — transcribed for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild by David Rosen
  Hie Maru passenger no. 117; 27y 11m; Rabbi; b. Stopnica, Poland; last residence Vilnius, Lithuania; US visa Q.I.V.6277, issued Yokohama, 4-30-1941; to Brooklyn, N.Y.; joining Father, Szoel Taub, 105 Ross St. Brooklyn, N.Y.; nearest relative left behind: Sister, Malke Viszkowska, Ofwock Niecala 6 Poland
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Chaskiel Taub, 1941: born about 1914, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattl…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Chaskiel Taub, born about 1914 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1913, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.