Szmul Chanowicz

Szmul Chanowicz received transit visa no. 1841 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lubavitsch yeshiva, aged 16.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Lithuanien

Age in 1940

16

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Lubavitsch Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #1838

The journey

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

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 958, Szmul Chanowicz, born 1917 at Głubokie, who came from Głubokie; the year, 1917, is seven years earlier than the register's compiled age (16 in 1940) suggests, although his sister Fruma, also on the register, appears on the list from the same town, so the archive shows the entry as a lead, not as an identification.
• Rabbi Chuna (Elchonon Yosef) Hertzman, Mirer yeshive in golus — the Mir yeshiva in exile (Brooklyn: the author, 1950). A 28-page Yiddish account by a student of the yeshiva of its road from Mir to Vilna, Keidan, Kobe and Shanghai, with a…
  The memorial list in Rabbi Chuna (Elchonon Yosef) Hertzman's Mirer yeshive in golus (Brooklyn, 1950), p. 5, has one name under the Lubavitch yeshiva: R. Shmuel Avraham Chanowitz, 9 Adar 5703 (February 1943). Under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 a name on a list of the Sugihara refugees' own route counts as a corroboration when the full name occurs once on the register and the record's place and date fit the route; all three hold here, and the line is attached on that basis.
• 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 Szmul Chanowicz among the brothers of Fruma Chanowicz, who arrived in 1941 from Vilnius, together with Gerszon and Israel, who are also on the register.

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