Fajwel Ginzburg

Fajwel Ginzburg received transit visa no. 882 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records electrician, aged 31.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

31

Occupation

Electrician

The journey

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

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 77 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1908 at Dawidgrodek; relatives abroad: a brother, G. Ginsburg, Calle Lanza 2157, Buenos Aires; an uncle, Henry Ginsburg, 2950 Blaine Avenue, Detroit, Michigan.
• 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 155 (also numbered 194) of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 33, born at Dawidgrodek, a navigator, who arrived in Japan on 24 February 1941.
• 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 1303) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Ginzburg Fajwel, SAILOR (zeglarz), born 1908 Dawidgrodek, single; 685/7 East Seward Road; passport issued by the Shanghai consulate 13 November 1941 (G-104, Ser. III 1692).
• 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 Feb 1941 (line 882)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Fajwel Ginzburg, 1947: born about 1909, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Fajwel Ginzburg, born about 1909 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the Marine Adder. The register's compiled line gives 1908, and the two are 1 year 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 1947 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 388, image 726, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• 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 Fajwel Ginzburg: born 1908, a sailor, arrived in 1941 from Kaunas; the year and the trade agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register, which has him as a navigator (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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