Brener Szloma
Visa no. 1475 · Kaunas, 7 August 1940
Brener Szloma received transit visa no. 1475 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. Aged 22 in 1940.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polnisch Age in 1940 22 The journey Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for South Africa.
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… 553; b.Luck 1918; from Luck 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…17; 23; b. Luck; Polish S.S. Manila Maru, Kobe to South Africa, 29 May 1941 — list of refugee passengers, HICEM meeting half the cost of the passages. JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00053, item 00766. One sheet carries four sailings; this is… Listed as "BRENER Szloma" among the refugee passengers who left Kobe to South Africa on the Manila Maru. The compiled register independently records this line as bound for South Africa — which is where this ship was going. The two agree without being derived from one another. Open this entry in the full register →
Brener Szloma is one of 2,140 people recorded in the surviving register of the transit
visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
The Sugihara Visa Archive · how this was compiled
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