Chanowicz Izrael

Chanowicz Izrael received transit visa no. 2027 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lubavitsch yeshiva, aged 14.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

14

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Lubavitsch Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #1785

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…
  779; 1925; from Otwock
• 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…
  #94, age 16, b. Glebokie, yeshiva, arr 13.2, from Vilno
• 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 1366) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Chanowicz Izrael, student, born 8 November 1925 Glebokie; 35 Moulmein Road; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (C-48, 3 December 1941) — with siblings Gerszon (1364, No.1785), Szmuel (1367) and Fruma (1368, No.1838).
• 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 2027)