Abramowicz Hersz

Abramowicz Hersz received transit visa no. 1424 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 49.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

49

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer.

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 8233, Gersz Abramowicz, born 1891 at Pruzana, who had come from Brzesc; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 1 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad gives as relatives abroad a sister, R. Steiberg, 3451 Giles Place, Bronx, New York; a sister, C. Abrams, 82 West 12th Street, 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 1 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: listed among Polish subjects, aged 50, born at Prozany, a merchant, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 25 January 1941.
• 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 1109); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Abramowicz Gersz, merchant, born 15 June 1891 Pruzany; 144 Wayside Road 39/32; passport A-41 (Ser. I 734171) issued by the Shanghai consulate 29 August 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 25 Jan 1941 (line 1424)
• Archive note, 30 August 2026 — a correction to the Kobe attributions. Thirteen register entries had been matched to two lines each of the Kobe refugee register, on the strength of a similar surname. In seven cases the two lines described…
  This entry had been given two Kobe lines. The one that remains is entry 1, on page 10: ABRAMOWICZ Gersz, with a sister R. Steinberg at 3451 Giles Place, the Bronx, and a sister C. Abrams at 82 West 12th Street. The other, a merchant of thirty-nine from Lodz, has been removed.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  He left Japan for Shanghai on the Taiyo Maru, sailing from Kobe on 7 July 1941 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of persons who left Japan for Shanghai, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Abramowicz Girsz — Polish — Kobe (Taiyo Maru, 7th)". (Taiyo Maru, Kobe, 7 July 1941, destination Shanghai.)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 21 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 21 March 1946, lists Gersch Abramovitch: born 1891 at Pruszana, a merchant, arrived in 1941 from Brest Litovsk; the year, the town and the trade agree with the 1940 Vilna refugee list, the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• Shanghai Ledger, page 139 (left): entries 1106-1113, registered 28 August - 5 September 1941: Wang R… — at 129 Route Vallon apt 3, the address of advocate Ernest Landau). Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register
• Shanghai Ledger, page 139 (right): entries 1106-1113, registered 28 August - 5 September 1941: Wang… — at 129 Route Vallon apt 3, the address of advocate Ernest Landau). Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register

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