Mendelsund Henoh Ben.

Mendelsund Henoh Ben. received transit visa no. 1059 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Clerk

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #1058

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• 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 25 Feb 1941 (line 1059)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Henoch Mendelsund, 1941: born about 1912, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francis…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Henoch Mendelsund, born about 1912 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1911, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS Tatuta Maru, sailing from Yokohama 6 March 1941, arrived San Francisco 20 March 1941 (US National Archives, M1410, film 368; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  He arrived at San Francisco on 20 March 1941 aboard the Tatuta Maru from Yokohama with his wife, on a US visitor's visa issued in Moscow on 9 February 1941; the manifest names his father, Beniamin Mendelsund of Nowolipki 43 in Warsaw, and gives his destination as David Dubinsky at 175 East Broadway, New York (manifest held by the US National Archives, read on FamilySearch's copy).
• Leads — the Yiddish press of New York and Latin America, 1945–1975 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: a Henoch Mendelsund was general manager of a New York local of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union between 1966 and 1972 (Fraye Arbeter Shtime; National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register lists Henoch Mendelsund, aged 30, who reached Japan from Vilno on 25 February 1941 and left for San Francisco on 6 March 1941.
• 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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has him twice, at entries 3716 and 3779, Mendelsond Henech and Mendelsond Henoch, born 1911 at Warsaw, who came from Warsaw, each time with Szyfra Mendelsond, born 1915, beside him; the year agrees with the age the register gives, and his wife with what the archive already holds.

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