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…
  Entry 80 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 19, born at Lublin, a yeshiva student; relatives abroad: a brother-in-law, Rabbi Chaim Herman, 922 Logan Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• 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 — the ledger reads: 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).
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Boruch Hersz Garden, 1946: born about 1922, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franc…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Boruch Hersz Garden, born about 1922 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1922, and the two are 0 years apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1946 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 385, image 493, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, their lists and sailings, Shanghai 1945–1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  UNRRA's China Office registered him in Shanghai in 1946 among the Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, as a rabbinical student who had arrived in China in August 1941 and wished to go on to the United States. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, Mizrachi members list and the United Board of Rabbis' birth-data pages, Shanghai 1945–46 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  The United Board of Rabbis and Rabbinical Colleges in Shanghai listed him among its members after the war, born in 1922 in Lublin. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• Detroit Jewish News, 4 May 2017, p. 62: obituary of Rabbi Hershel "Harry" Garden (Bentley Historical Library digital archive)
  Boruch Hersz Garden became Rabbi Hershel "Harry" Garden of Detroit. His obituary in the Detroit Jewish News of 4 May 2017 says he died on 27 March 2017, aged 92; that he grew up at Milanów in Poland with five brothers and sisters and studied at the Baranowicze and Chachmei Lublin yeshivas; that he was one of those who received a Sugihara visa in August 1940, stayed nine months at Kobe, and then spent six years in Shanghai, where he went on studying with the Lublin yeshiva; that both his parents and three sisters were murdered; and that after the war he came to the United States on a student visa, settled in Detroit, married, apprenticed as a jeweller and ran a jewellery shop at Northland Center from 1961 for nearly twenty-five years. He left a wife, three children, grandchildren and a great-grandson. The register's line is a Lublin yeshiva student born about 1922 who went from Kobe to Shanghai and reached San Francisco in 1946 on a student's passage; the obituary's age makes him two or three years younger, and everything else agrees. (Detroit Jewish News, 4 May 2017, page 62, read in the Bentley Historical Library's digital archive.)
• 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 1926, Boruch-Hersz Garden, born in 1922 at Lublin, who came from Lublin.

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