Rozenbojm Jakob
Visa no. 1998 · Kaunas, 20 August 1940
Rozenbojm Jakob received transit visa no. 1998 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. The register records tailor, aged 44.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polish Age in 1940 44 Occupation Tailor
The journey Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.
Where this comes from 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… 4622, Krasnystaw, 1895, from Warszawa US arrival manifest: Jakob Mendel Rozenbojm, Seattle, 1940 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Jakob Mendel Rozenbojm, 1940. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.1998 'ozenbojm Jakob' records age 44; the manifest gives born 1895, arriving 1
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Rozenbojm Jakob is one of 2,140 people recorded in the surviving register of the transit
visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
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