Gabaj Sura

Gabaj Sura received transit visa no. 1911 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records teacher - yeshiva, aged 27.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

27

Occupation

Teacher - Yeshiva

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 2208, Sora Gabaj, born 1913 at Krynki, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and the town with what the archive already holds for this line.
• 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 74 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1913 at Krynki; relatives abroad: cousins, Louis Schaen, 2700 Bronx Park East, Section V 24 N, and A. Lev, 5a Calle del Alamo 195, Mexico City.
• The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…
  Entry 152 (also numbered 187) of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 28, born at Krymki, a teacher, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 February 1941.
• JDC Archives, New York — Shanghai Migration Files, box index (AR 33/44, file 00014): the alphabetical index to the JDC's Shanghai emigration case files, 1946-1950 — some 2,640 case files covering about 5,400 persons, each family under on…
  JDC Shanghai Migration Files, case file no. 147 — an emigration case file opened for the family in Shanghai after the war; the file itself can be requested from the JDC Archives (names closely match; approved under the owner's standing review)
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 25 Feb 1941 (line 1911)
• The JDC's Shanghai migration files, 1946–1950 — the index of emigrants from Shanghai (JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 14)
  Sora Gabaj, a yeshiva teacher, is in the JDC's index of its Shanghai emigration cases, filed among those leaving for the United States, as the register's compiled line has her. (JDC Archives, New York, AR 33/44, the Shanghai migration index)

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