Kronzak Enah

Kronzak Enah received transit visa no. 1422 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbi, aged 41.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

41

Occupation

Rabbi

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Szenn (41)

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Szenn — wife, aged 41

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

• 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 163 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 43, born at Ostroleka, a rabbi, Polish; relatives abroad: a friend, J. Kaplan, 110 Deavhorn Street, Chicago.
• 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 1406); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Kronzak Enach, RABBI, born 15 October 1898 Ostroleka, married — entered as two persons; 222/21 Kungping Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 2 December 1941.
• Tadeusz Romer papers, Library and Archives Canada, MG 31 D 68, vol. 2 (microfilm reel C-10451, frame 1088): 'Lista obywateli polskich ewakuowanych z Dalekiego Wschodu… — cited by link only (Canadiana Heritage); frame image not republished
  Named on the Polish Embassy's list of Polish citizens evacuated from the Far East on the exchange ship s/s Kamakura Maru, Shanghai, 16 August 1942 — one of the 41 'civilian refugees' for whom Ambassador Romer obtained places (evacuee no. 80, 'KRONZAK Enoch z zona Szewa (evacuees 80-81)'); the party sailed with Romer to Lourenco Marques and most went on to England
• Library and Archives Canada, Tadeusz Romer fonds, MG 31 D 68, reel C-10452, frame 626, via Canadiana Heritage — the same list, page 2, entries 11-22 (the Goldhammer family, Halpern, Hazenberg, Klibanski, Klok and wife, Kostelaniec, Kronz…
  On the Polish Embassy's list of 41 Polish refugees (Romer's Shanghai-period papers) (Romer fonds, reel C-10452, frame 626, entry 20): KRONŻAK Enoch, kupiec (merchant), born 1898; passport K.177/1/33/41, Szanghaj 2.12.41, do 8.12.43 — Holds no visa. Wishes to go to the USA or to South Africa, but can give no reason for the choice of country.
• Shanghai Ledger, page 176 (left): entries 1403-1410, registered 13 December 1941 on Tokyo-issued passports of 2-5 December 1941: Blumenfeld Moszek-He… — the Mir yeshiva). Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register
• Shanghai Ledger, page 176 (right): entries 1403-1410, registered 13 December 1941 on Tokyo-issued passports of 2-5 December 1941: Blumenfeld Moszek-H… — the Mir yeshiva). Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register
• Tadeusz Romer papers, Library and Archives Canada, MG 31 D 68, vol. 2 (microfilm reel C-10451, frame 1087): 'Lista obywateli polskich ewakuowanych z Dalekiego Wschodu… — cited by link only (Canadiana Heritage); frame image not republished
• Library and Archives Canada, Tadeusz Romer fonds, MG 31 D 68, reel C-10452, frame 626, via Canadiana Heritage — the same list, page 2, entries 11-22 (the Goldhammer family, Halpern, Hazenberg, Klibanski, Klok and wife, Kostelaniec, Kronz…

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