Chaim Frydman

Chaim Frydman received transit visa no. 1015 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 22.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

22

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Edith

The journey

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

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 32 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 23, born at Warsaw, a merchant, Polish; relatives abroad: a brother, I. Friedman, Petah Tikva.
• Arolsen Archives, Bad Arolsen — the online person index (collections 2.1.2.1, 3.1.1.2, 3.2.1.1, 3.2.1.4 and 6.3.1.1), reviewed against the register's ages and birthplaces, 17 October 2026
  The Arolsen Archives at Bad Arolsen hold, among the wartime lists of foreigners registered or employed in Germany, a record indexed as Chaim Frydmann, born 3 April 1920 at Warschau. The year agrees with the age recorded for this visa holder, and the birthplace with the Kobe relatives list. Others of this surname are on the register, so this is held as a lead.
• 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 Chaim Friedmann: born 1918 at Warsaw, a clerk, arrived in 1941 from Vilno by way of Siberia; the year and the town agree with the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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