Josef Ganger

Josef Ganger received transit visa no. 134 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records lublin yeshiva, aged 17.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

17

Occupation

Lublin Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

son of #135

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA?.

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…
  1936; b.1912
• 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…
  No.43, age 13, b. Vienna, Pupil
• 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 1186); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Ganger Jozef-Jakub, student, born 15 October 1922 Vienna, single; registered 30 September 1941; 67 Route Pere Robert, flat 3; Tokyo-issued passport of 20 August 1941 (Ser. II 2241) on an Embassy certificate of 15 March 1941 and a Bielsko identity card of 1939.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 3 Jan 1941 (line 134)