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 Zion and Chana Leah Gurfinkel; Bl…
  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