Gorfinkel Chana

Gorfinkel Chana received transit visa no. 1454 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records teacher - beth jacob, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Teacher - Beth Jacob

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #1392

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Chawa Gorfinkiel, 1946: born about 1910, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisc…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Chawa Gorfinkiel, born about 1910 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946. The surname is the register's and rare on it, and the given name is close but not the same; a lead, not an identification.
• The HIAS Shanghai registration of refugees, 1… — Arolsen Archives, Bad Arolsen, collection 3.1.1.3 (registrations of former persecutees in Asia), unit 19532. A page may be shown singly with this citation; Arolsen is told where it appears.
  The HIAS Shanghai registration (Arolsen Archives, 3.1.1.3, unit 19532) lists Chana Gorfinkel, born in 1910 in Mir, as the wife of Rabbi Chaim Gorfinkel (born 15 May 1894 in Eišiškės), with their two young daughters. The family reached Shanghai from Vilnius by way of Siberia on 22 September 1941. Chaim's brother Abraham Josef Gorfinkel was in Evansville, Indiana. The list reads: entry 2415, Arolsen 3.1.1.3/78796793 (unit 19532): "GORFINKEL Chaim, 15.5.94 Eischichik, Pol., rabbiner, 22.9.41 from Wilnius, via Siberia; wife: Chana, 1910 Mir; daughter: Sara, 1937 Augustow; [daughter] Schuramis, 1938 Brest; brother: Abr. Josef Gorfinkel, Colonial apts., Evansville, Indiana (see cable of HIAS N.Y. of 5.12.41)". Repeated in 18997 (3.1.1.3/78796331): Gorfinkel Chaim 1894 Eischichik; Chana 1910 Mir; Schuramis 1938 Brest.
• 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 her among its members after the war, born in 1910 in Mir. She is listed with her husband Chaim and their three children. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• 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)
  Chana Gorfinkel 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. This is the only line on the register with this given name and surname; 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 Chana Gorfinkel for emigration in April 1946, according to its list for that month, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This is the only line on the register with this given name and surname, and the register already records this line's arrival in Shanghai.
• 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 7935, Chana Garfinkiel, born in 1910. Sugihara's ledger writes the name Gorfinkiel; the list writes Garfinkiel.

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