Garden Boruch Gert

Garden Boruch Gert received transit visa no. 415 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lublin yeshiva, aged 18.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

18

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Lublin Yeshiva

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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…
  80; age 19; b. Lublin; yeshiva; brother in law Rabbi Chaim Herman 922 Logan Ave Minneapolis Minn.
• 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 1392) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Garden Boruch-Hersz, born 25 February 1922 Lublin; 35 Moulmein Road; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (G-120, 5 December 1941) — with his brother Izrael Mojsze (entry 1393, No.1425).