Frieszman Aron

Frieszman Aron received transit visa no. 1441 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records tailor, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Tailor

The journey

Reached Japan; 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 8110, Aron Friszman, born 1911 at Kowel, who had come from Kowel; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Aron Ber Friszman, 1941: born about 1911, 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 Aron Ber Friszman, 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 Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I p. 4 — SS President Cleveland, arrived Honolulu 18 April 1941, due San Francisco 26 April 1941
  He was listed among the aliens aboard the President Cleveland, which reached Honolulu on 18 April 1941 on her way to San Francisco (JWB Hawaii list, forwarded to the JDC; JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53). The list reads: "Fr[y]szman, Aaron Ber. — S — 30 — M — Polish — San Francisco" (second letter overtyped; reads Froszman/Fryszman).

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