Izidor Ganger

Izidor Ganger received transit visa no. 135 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records factory owner, aged 49.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

49

Occupation

Factory Owner

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

father of #134, wife Roza (44)

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Roza — wife, aged 44

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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…
  1934; b.1891; from Biala Krakowska
• 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.42, age 50, b. Cracow, Bookkeeper
• 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 1191); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Ganger Izydor, MANUFACTURER (fabrykant), born 1891 Krakow, married; 67 Route Pere Robert, flat 3; Bielsko passport of 10 May 1937 extended by the British Legation in Kaunas 2 December 1939 (G-418) and by the Embassy in Tokyo 11 March 1941; with him Rosa Gittel Ganger (b. 1896 Krakow, entry 1188, on a Bielsko passport of 24 March 1937 extended the same days) and Jozef-Jakub (entry 1186).
• 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 135)