Ganc Icchok Mendel

Visa no. 1245 · Kaunas, 6 August 1940

Ganc Icchok Mendel received transit visa no. 1245 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records floor maker, aged 24.

What the register records

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

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…
The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 2017, Icchok-Mendel Ganc, born 1916 at Warszawa, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
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…
Entry 87 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 25, born at Warsaw, a floor maker, Polish.
JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
He left Kobe on the Fusimi Maru on 21 May 1941, bound for Bombay on the way to Palestine (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Ganc Icchok Mendel". (Fusimi Maru, Kobe, 21 May 1941.)