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JAPAN · 34.7°N 135.2°E · CITY

Kobe

Japan's historic Jewish port - the 1940-41 transit point for the Mir Yeshiva escapees ("Sugihara Jews") and home of Ohel Shelomo synagogue.

Modern locality anchor

Kobe

Japan · City · 34.7°N 135.2°E

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Where is Kobe?

Land geometry: Natural Earth 1:50m via world-atlas. Pins mark modern localities or representative regional anchors stored on Atlas place records, not historical borders and not reconstructed positions. · Sources & methods

THE COMMUNITY TIMELINE · EVERY NODE DATED

What happened to the Jewish community of Kobe?

1868–1940

Port community (19th c.)

This section addresses destruction and loss. It is one chapter, not the whole story — continue to what survives and what was created after
1940–1941

1940-41: Mir Yeshiva and refugee transit era

1945–present

Small contemporary community

Today

Today

Tiny community; Sugihara-transit memory.

LANGUAGES & COMMUNITY

What did Kobe sound like?

Hebrew (עברית, Ivrit)Yiddish (ייִדיש)

Yiddish (ייִדיש) is a language with its own grammar, literature, and history — not “broken” anything, and not a dialect of Hebrew.

AFTER · IN FULL COLOR

What survives today?

In Kobe

Tiny community; Sugihara-transit memory.

  • Ohel Shelomo Synagogue

    synagogue · public landmark

SOURCES & REVIEW

  • Holocaust Encyclopedia

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum · open source

  • Japan - Virtual Jewish History Tour

    Jewish Virtual Library · open source

Reviewed 2026-07-30

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