Szebs Simcha Abram

Szebs Simcha Abram received transit visa no. 1096 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

What is known

Abram Szebs, born 1911 in Szeputowo, is listed on the relief roster with no relatives recorded.

Where this comes from

• US arrival manifest: Simcho Abram Szebs, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Simcho Abram Szebs, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.1096 'zeba imcha Abram' records age 29; the manifest gives born 1911, arriving 194
• 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 2 Feb 1941 (line 1096)
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)