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.

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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.

Rabbi Schneerson 770 East[ern] Parkway Bklyn

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…
  Entry 93 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 22, born at Glebokie, a yeshiva student, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 3 February 1941.
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  handwritten 1919 Glebokie; Rabbi Schneerson 770 East Parkway Blyn
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  No 34; 1919 Glebokie; Polish
• 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 — the ledger reads: 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).
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Gerszon Chanowicz, 1946: born about 1919, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francis…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Gerszon Chanowicz, born about 1919 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1920, and the two are 1 year apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1946 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 384, image 502, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, their lists and sailings, Shanghai 1945–1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  UNRRA's China Office registered him in Shanghai in 1946 among the Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, as a rabbinical student who had arrived in China in September 1941. The list of students of the Lubavitch yeshiva Tomche Tmimim in Shanghai gives his birth as 1919, in Glebokie, and his Polish passport as No. C-49/1/21/41. He was listed among the passengers for the General Meigs to the United States in July 1946 with the Polish rabbinical students of the '29 group'. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• 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 him among its members after the war, born in 1919 in Globokie. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• Polish rabbis and rabbinical students registered with UNRRA, Shanghai (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, China Office;… — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48676
  The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Shanghai register of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, has Gerszon Chanowicz, rabbinical student, arrived in China in Sep 1941, wishing to go to the United States. The name occurs once on the register; the list is of the refugees who came from Vilna by way of Kobe, and an arrival in Shanghai in Sep 1941 is the route this line is recorded as taking.
• 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)
  Gerszon Chanowicz 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.
• 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, names Gerszon Chanowicz, born 1919, among the brothers of Fruma Chanowicz, who arrived in 1941 from Vilnius; the list names Israel, born 1925, and Szmul as well, and all four are on the register. His year of birth agrees with the other records of him. Sugihara's typist wrote the name as Chanowicz Gerszok.
• 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 Gerszon Chanowicz, born in 1919, of Otwock, 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.
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
• 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…

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