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…
  No.77, 1908 Dawidgrodek; brother G.Ginsburg 2157 Calle Lanza Buenos Aires, uncle Henry Ginsburg 2950 Blaine Ave Detroit Mich
• 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…
  155/194, 33, Dawidgrodek, Navigat., arr 24.2
• 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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)