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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 2001, Aba Gordecki, born 1905, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 54 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 56, born at 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 — the ledger reads: 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)
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 24–32 — April 1941 (and a May continuation sheet)
  He left Japan for Shanghai, from Japan, 28 May 1941 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of persons who left Japan for Shanghai, May 1941, continuation sheet (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Gorodecki Aba — Polish — Shanghai (dated 28 [May])". ((ship not named), Japan, 28 May 1941, Shanghai.)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 28 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 28 March 1946, lists Aba Gorodecki: born 1905 at Janow, a merchant, arrived in 1941 from Poland by way of Siberia; the year and the town agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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