Aba Gorodecki

Aba Gorodecki received transit visa no. 311 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records clerk, aged 35.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

35

Occupation

Clerk

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

four children

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…
  2001; b.Zofiowka 1905; from Warszawa
• 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…
  No.54, age 56, b. Janow
• 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 1064) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Gorodecki Aba, private clerk, born 12 March 1905 Janow, single; registered 4 July 1941; 306 Route Cardinal Mercier; passport G-100 issued by the Shanghai consulate 3 July 1941.
• 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 Jan 1941 (line 311)