Brzozek Samson

Brzozek Samson received transit visa no. 1148 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 22.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

22

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

The journey

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

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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 7485, Samson Brzozek, born 1918, who had come from Mir; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 28 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1918 at Saratow, Polish; relatives abroad: an uncle, Ben. Brodsky, 6158 South Racine Avenue, Chicago; an uncle, J. Brzozek, post office box 188, Barbados, British West Indies; an uncle, A. Belman, 1542 South Millard Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
• 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…
  Entry 98 (also numbered 85) of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 23, born at Saratow, a yeshiva student, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 25 February 1941.
• 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 1942 (line 1148)
• 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: "BRZOZEK Samson — 1 — USA". (Heiyo Maru ("Heio"/"Heyo Maru"), Kobe, 29 June 1941, the USA and South America.)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 21 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 21 March 1946, lists Samson Brzozek: born 1918 at Saratow, a yeshiva student, arrived in 1941 from Lithuania by way of Siberia; the year, the town and the trade agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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