Dessler Nachum

Dessler Nachum received transit visa no. 1404 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. Aged 20 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

British

Age in 1940

20

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Nahum Wolf or Nacham Volfalias Dessler or Desleris, 1940: born about 1920, Lithuania. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger list…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Nahum Wolf or Nacham Volfalias Dessler or Desleris, born about 1920 in Lithuania, arriving at San Francisco in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1920, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a passenger born in Lithuania landing at San Francisco in 1940 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.
• The 1950 United States census (US National Archives, 1950census.archives.gov)
  In April 1950 the United States census found him in Cleveland, Ohio, aged 29, born in Lithuania, the principal of a Jewish day school, married with two small children (National Archives, 1950 census, enumeration district 92-932, sheet 2).
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS President Cleveland, sailing from Kobe 10 October 1940, arrived San Francisco late October 1940 (NARA, passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco, M1410, film 365; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  The President Cleveland sailed from Kobe on 10 October 1940, took shore leave at Honolulu on the 19th and landed at San Francisco in the last week of October; its manifest has Nahum Wolf Dessler, aged 20, single, a student, reading English, Lithuanian, born at Kelmė, last residence Telšiai, on a non-quota immigration visa, No. 9, issued at Kaunas on 19 July 1940. The register's line gives his age as 20; the 1950 census on this page found him a school principal in Cleveland.

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