Gulewski Chaim

Gulewski Chaim received transit visa no. 1390 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lecker yeshiva, aged 15.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

15

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Lecker Yeshiva

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 95 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1924 at Brzesc; relatives abroad: an uncle, M. Ryer, New York.
• 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 263 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 17, born at Brzesc, a yeshiva student, who arrived in Japan from Zarasai on 24 February 1941.
• 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 24 Feb 1941 (line 1390)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Chaim Ber Gulewski, 1946: born about 1924, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franci…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Chaim Ber Gulewski, born about 1924 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1924, and the two are 0 years apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1946 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 385, image 489, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• 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)
  UNRRA's China Office registered him in Shanghai in 1946 among the Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, as a rabbinical student who had arrived in China in August 1941. In 1946 he was among the students accepted by the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in New York. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, Mizrachi members list and the United Board of Rabbis' birth-data pages, Shanghai 1945–46 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  The United Board of Rabbis and Rabbinical Colleges in Shanghai listed him among its members after the war, born in 1924 in Brzesc. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• The 1950 United States census (US National Archives, 1950census.archives.gov)
  In April 1950 the United States census found him at the Hebrew seminary in Lakewood, New Jersey, a student aged 25, born in Poland and not yet married (National Archives, 1950 census, enumeration district 15-36, sheet 84).
• Polish rabbis and rabbinical students registered with UNRRA, Shanghai (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, China Office;… — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48676
  The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Shanghai register of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, has Chaim-Ber Gulewski, rabbinical student, arrived in China in Aug 1941, wishing to go to the United States. The name occurs once on the register; the list is of the refugees who came from Vilna by way of Kobe, and an arrival in Shanghai in Aug 1941 is the route this line is recorded as taking.
• List of members of the United Board of Rabbis and Rabbinical Colleges, Shanghai (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48661)
  Chaim Ber Gulewski is named on the list of members of the United Board of Rabbis and Rabbinical Colleges in Shanghai, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The name occurs once on the register; the Board was the body of the Polish rabbis and yeshiva students who reached Shanghai from Kobe in 1941, and their families, the route the register records for this line.
• List of persons processed by the American Joint Distribution Committee's migration department, Shanghai, 1–30 April 1946 (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48686)
  The American Joint Distribution Committee's migration department in Shanghai processed Chaim Gulewski for emigration in April 1946, according to its list for that month, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The name occurs once on the register, and the register already records this line's arrival in Shanghai.

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