Chanowicz Fruma

Chanowicz Fruma received transit visa no. 1838 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records student, aged 27.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Lithuanien

Age in 1940

27

Occupation

Student

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

sister of #1841

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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, at entry 922, Fruma Chanowicz, born 1913 at Głubokie, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  Entry 39 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 28, born at Glebokie, a student; relatives abroad: a cousin, D. Fitelson, 467 Clifford Avenue, Rochester, New York.
• 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 1368) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Chanowicz Fruma, schoolgirl, born 12 August 1913 Glebokie, single; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (C-51, 3 December 1941) — with siblings Gerszon, Izrael and Szmuel (entries 1364-1367).
• 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)
  A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed in La-karov ve-la-rachok on 21 March 1946, lists Fruma Chanowicz, born 1913 at Glembori, a corsetmaker, arrived in 1941 from Wilna (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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