Ginsburg Chaim

Ginsburg Chaim received transit visa no. 1777 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 15 August 1940. The register records rabbi - reverends yeshiva, aged 50.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

50

Occupation

Rabbi - Reverends Yeshiva

The journey

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

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 a Chaim Ginzburg at entry 7201, born 1920, who had come from Kleck; the register's compiled age points to a birth about 1890, so the archive shows the entry as a lead, not as this person's record.
• 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 49 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 50, born at Zdunska, a rabbi.
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  1880 Zdunska Wola; Reverends
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Chaimberek Ginsberg, 1941: born about 1890, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franc…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Chaimberek Ginsberg, born about 1890 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1890, 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.
• 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 Ginsburg 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.
• 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 Chaim Berek Ginsberg, born in 1890, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and his second given name agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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