Abram Icchok Gorfinkel

Abram Icchok Gorfinkel received transit visa no. 1835 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student, aged 18.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Lithuanien

Age in 1940

18

Occupation

Rabbinical Student

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for South Africa.

Where this comes from

• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  No 31/136; 1921 Warszawa; Polish; Rabbi Shneierson, 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn N.Y.
• Oral history interview with Abraham Garfinkel — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 33115. Catalogue: born Oct 5 1921, Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland); born Warsaw 5 Oct 1921; parents Alte Ben Z… — the interviewee may be living
  USC Shoah Foundation VHA interview 33115: Abraham Garfinkel — the interviewee himself — gave a testimony (catalogue: born Oct 5 1921, Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)); born Warsaw 5 Oct 1921; parents Alte Ben Zion and Chana Leah Gurfinkel; Bluman: No.1835 Abram Icchok Gorfinkel, rabbinical student, 18 — probable
• 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)
  The list of students of the Lubavitch yeshiva Tomche Tmimim in Shanghai gives his birth as 5 October 1921, in Warsaw, and his Polish passport as No. G-127/2/23/41. (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 1921 in Warsaw. (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)
  Abram 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.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 28 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 28 March 1946, lists Abram Icchok Gorfinkel: born 1921 at Warsaw, a yeshiva student, arrived in 1941 from Warsaw by way of Siberia; the year and the trade agree with the archive's compiled register (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• 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 2138, Gorfinkiel Abram-Icek, born 1921, who came from Otwock; the year agrees with what the archive already holds.

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