Chaim Blumenkranz

Chaim Blumenkranz received transit visa no. 19 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 26 July 1940. The register records rabbi, aged 33.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

33

Occupation

Rabbi

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• Arolsen person record: Chaim BLUMENKRANC
  Dob: 1907
• Haaretz, 2 July 1943 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Rabbi Chaim Blumenkranz, who had been a rabbi in Mokotów in Warsaw, was in the Land of Israel by the summer of 1943: Haaretz's lecture listings for 2 July 1943 announce him speaking at the Great Synagogue (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• 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 Chaim Blumenkranz, born 1907, of Warsaw, who was in Lithuania during the war; the year and the city agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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