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)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Simcho Abram Szebs, 1941: born about 1911, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franci…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Simcho Abram Szebs, born about 1911 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1911, and the two agree. 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.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Ko… — "List of departures for the month of June, 1941" (Jewish Community of Kobe, Migration Office; covering letter p. 12, Kobe, July 1941, HICEM-funded tickets)
  He left Kobe on the Heiyo Maru ("Heio"/"Heyo Maru") on 29 June 1941, bound for the USA (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, June 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: Heiyo Maru ("Heio"/"Heyo Maru") sheet: "SZEBS Symcha Abram — 1 — USA". (Heiyo Maru ("Heio"/"Heyo Maru"), Kobe, 29 June 1941, the USA and South America.)
• 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 Symcho Abram Szebs, aged 30, born at Szepietowka, a student, who reached Japan on 2 February 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, at entry 7584, Szebs Simcho Abram, born 1911, who came from Mir; the year agrees with the age the register gives.
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)

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