Tanchum Rabinowicz

Tanchum Rabinowicz received transit visa no. 656 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student, aged 23.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

23

Occupation

Rabbinical Student

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

Where this comes from

• 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 24 Jan 1941 (line 656)
• Haaretz, 2 February 1942, and HaTzofe, 3 February 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Tanchum Rabinowicz, a rabbinical student, is on the list of immigrants on their way from India to the Land of Israel printed by Haaretz on 2 February 1942 and HaTzofe on 3 February (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• Izkor — the fallen of the Jewish Brigade and of Kfar Etzion, read 18 October 2026
  Izkor, the Israeli Ministry of Defence's memorial to the fallen, gives his life: born at Stolpce in 1919, son of Ida and Eliyahu, a Betar leader who escaped from Vilna and reached the Land of Israel by way of Japan and India. He enlisted in the British army and served in the Jewish Brigade in Italy; on 15 March 1945, returning from a patrol, he was accidentally shot in the leg, and he died of his wounds in hospital at Ravenna on 21 March 1945. The year of birth agrees with his age on the register, and the route with the list of immigrants from India. (Izkor, read 18 October 2026.)
• 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 4779, Tanchum Rabinowicz, born in 1917 at Stolpce, who came from Stolpce.

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