Gordon Wolf

Gordon Wolf received transit visa no. 1112 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 28.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

28

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Canada.

What is known

Wolf Gordon, born 1911 in Rakow, listed his uncle Rabbi S. Krewski of Allentown, Pennsylvania as his relative contact.

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…
  1700, b.1911, from Iwieniec
• 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…
  30, Rakow, Yeshiva, arr 2.2, from Krakes
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  16 1911 Rakow; uncle rabbi S.Krewski Alentown Pa. 460 Tilomahn st
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — 'List of Polish war refugees in China', 242 names: the Polish (Sugihara-stream) group in wartime Shanghai, among them Gedalia Zupnik of the Mir, Chaim Ba…
  USHMM 'List of Polish war refugees in China' (242 names); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026
• USHMM Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database sweep (2026-08-03): UNRRA selected records AG-018-001 China Office (Shanghai lists — war refugees in China, Mirrer Yeshiva student lists, Canada-visa-holder lists, Mizrachi members, AJDC Mig…