Sex
Male
Status
Deceased
Boris Pasco was a bookseller first at Brewer's and from 1935 at Harris's.
During the war he carried out illegal relief work with Kiyoshi Watanabe and Helen Ho. He was arrested in May, 1943 on suspicion of allowing his shop on Ice House Street to be used by the resistance but managed to convince his captors of his innocence and was soon released.
For more information see:
https://jonmarkgreville2.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/boris-pasco-one-of-th…
Photos that show this Person
1953
Comments
Boris Pasco
Henry Ching writes:
I was very interested in Brian’s post on Boris Pasco. During the Japanese occupation my father and I used weekly to walk to Central to buy what little food we could afford, as it was cheaper than shopping in Happy Valley where we lived. We often dropped in at Pasco’s bookshop in Ice House Street.
I was not yet ten years old then, but my father tried hard to get me to read, and I remember he bought me a book from Pasco. It was Rudyard Kipling’’s Just So Stories. After I finished it we returned it to him, and he let us choose another book without further charge. We did this with each successive book. It really became a sort of lending library, the fee for which was the cost of the initial book.
Pasco had an assistant, a Chinese lady whose name I forget. She was very loyal, and continued to operate the shop while he was a guest of the kempetai.
Pasco, incidentally, was an Old Boy of the Diocesan Boys’ School.
Thanks very much for this -
Thanks very much for this - in my opinion, it's more evidence of the kind of man Boris Pasco was.
And a very interesting glimpse into your life and that of your father's in occupied Hong Kong.
Mr Ernest Manning puts on…
Mr Ernest Manning puts on his old school tie, with Dr Arthur Woo, Mr Wong Ka-tsun and Mr B. Pasco watching. Scene was a cocktail party given by the Diocesan School Old Boys' Association. (Staff Photographer)
Source: The China Mail, page 9, 20th June 1953
Boris Pasco 1 September 1900 - 8 March 1966
Incoming Passenger List Canada from Hong Kong
Bores (sic) Pasco 19 clerk
Passenger List Montreal to London November 1918
Boris Pasco age 19 shipping clerk born Russia
Find A Grave
Jewish Cemetery Happy Valley Hong Kong
Boris Pasco 8 March 1966
Ancestry Public Tree
Boris Pasco born 1 September 1900 in Ukraine died 8 March 1966 Hong Kong
Marriage St Josephs Church Hong Kong5 October 1922 to Kathleen Josephine Harris (1898 - 1988)
Birth of Patricia Kathlyn Sheila Pasco 29 October 1923 (1923 - 2004)
Helen Lau
I think the loyal assistant who kept the shop open while Boris Pasco was in prison was probably Helen Lau, as she attended his funeral in 1966 and was described as having worked for him for more than 25 years:
Source: Well-known Local Bookstore Owner Dies, South China Morning Post, 9 March 1966, p. 13.
Naturalisation Certificate
He was naturalised as a British citizen in 1955. A copy of the certificate is held in the UK National Archives, their ref: HO 334/288/16267
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