Wajsbrod Nisel

Wajsbrod Nisel received transit visa no. 1477 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records bookbinder, aged 26.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

26

Occupation

Bookbinder

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• 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 23 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 26, born at Polanica, a merchant, Polish; relatives abroad: an uncle, J. Wajsbrod, (illegible), Canton, Ohio; a sister, H. Wajsw(illegible), Sokolow Street, Haifa.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Jacob Wajsbord, 1941: born about 1915, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seatt…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Jacob Wajsbord, born about 1915 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1914, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle 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.
• The HIE, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Jacob Wajsbord — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arrivin…
  The Seattle passenger list of the Hie Maru, arriving 29 March 1941, has at line 18 a single bookbinder aged 26 from Warsaw, entered as Jacob Wajsbord. The age and the trade are the register's for this line, but the given name is not: the register has Nisel. The archive takes the two as the same man, by the owner's decision of 4 October 2026, and records the difference here.
• Haaretz, 2 February 1942, and HaTzofe, 3 February 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Nisel Wajsbrod is on the Bombay list of Polish refugees bound for Palestine printed on 19 September 1941 and on the list of immigrants on their way from India printed by Haaretz on 2 February 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Nisel Wajsbord, aged 24, of Falenica, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• 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 7312, Jakub Wajsbrod, born in 1914, who came from Warszawa. Sugihara's ledger writes his given name Nisel; the list, like the compilers, has Jakub.
• The HIE, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Jacob Wajsbord — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arrivin…
• The HIE, arriving at Seattle in 1941: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Jacob Wajsbord — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passen…

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