Gorelik Jeruchim

Gorelik Jeruchim received transit visa no. 1458 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbi, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Rabbi

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Chana (23)

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Chana — wife, aged 23

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

• US arrival manifest: Jeruchim Gorelik, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Jeruchim Gorelik, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.1458 'Gorelik Jezachem' records age 29; the manifest gives born 1911, arriving 1941.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Jeruchim Gorelik, 1941: born about 1911, 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 Jeruchim Gorelik, born about 1911 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1911, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Ko… — "List of departures for the month of June, 1941" (Jewish Community of Kobe, Migration Office; covering letter p. 12, Kobe, July 1941, HICEM-funded tickets)
  He left Kobe on the Heiyo Maru ("Heio"/"Heyo Maru") on 29 June 1941, bound for the USA (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, June 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: Heiyo Maru ("Heio"/"Heyo Maru") sheet: "Gorelik Jeruchim & wife Chana & son Chaim (9 months) — 3 persons — USA". (Heiyo Maru ("Heio"/"Heyo Maru"), Kobe, 29 June 1941, the USA and South America.)
• 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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad lists Rabbi Jeruchim Gorelik, aged 31, born at Orzenice, with his wife Chana, 24, born at Brest, and their infant; his relatives abroad were his father, Rabbi Gorelik, of 717 Coster Street in the Bronx, and an uncle, Rabbi Selzer, secretary of the Jewish Community of New York. His calling and his wife's name and age agree with the register. Sugihara's typist wrote the name as Gorelik Jezachem.
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Jeruchim Gorelik, born in 1910, of Brześć, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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