Chanowicz Gerszon

Chanowicz Gerszon received transit visa no. 1785 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 15 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lubavitsch yeshiva, aged 20.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

20

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Lubavitsch Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #2027

The journey

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

What is known

Herszel Chanowicz, born 1919 in Glebokie, appears on the same relief list with a relative contact given as Rabbi Schneerson at 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  #93, age 22, b. Glebokie, yeshiva, arr 3.2, from Vilno
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  handwritten 1919 Glebokie; Rabbi Schneerson 770 East Parkway Blyn
• 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 1364); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Chanowicz Gerszon, born 20 October 1919 Glebokie; 35 Moulmein Road; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (C-49, 3 December 1941) — with siblings Izrael (entry 1366, No.2027), Szmuel (1367) and Fruma (1368, No.1838).
• Shanghai Ledger, page 171 (left): entries 1363-1370, registered 13 December 1941 on passports issued by the Shanghai consulate itself 3-5 December 1941: Borensztajn Josef (student, b. 1916 Solec), the Chanowicz siblings of Glebokie — Ger…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 171 (right): entries 1363-1370, registered 13 December 1941 on passports issued by the Shanghai consulate itself 3-5 December 1941: Borensztajn Josef (student, b. 1916 Solec), the Chanowicz siblings of Glebokie — Ge…