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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 1936, Josef Ganger, born 1912, who came from Biała Krakowska; his parents Izydor and Roza Ganger stand above him on the list, as the register makes him their son, but the year, 1912, is eleven years earlier than the register's compiled age (17 in 1940) suggests, so the archive shows the entry as a lead, not as an identification.
• 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…
  Entry 43 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 13, born at Vienna, a 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 — the ledger reads: 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)
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, their lists and sailings, Shanghai 1945–1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  The Agudath Israel organisation of refugees from Poland in Shanghai listed him among its members on 24 December 1945: Jozef Jacob Ganger, born in 1922 in Vienna, Polish passport No. 729/25/VIII/41 issued in Tokyo on 25 August 1941, listed with his mother Rosa Gittel Ganger, born in 1896 in Krakow. The UNRRA China Office kept the list with its 1946 registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 28 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 28 March 1946, lists Josef Gaenger: born 1922 at Vienna, arrived in 1941 from Vilnius, with his parents Isidor and Rosa; the year and the town agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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