Orbach Abram

Orbach Abram received transit visa no. 1565 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 9 August 1940. The register records building technician, aged 33.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

33

Occupation

Building Technician

The journey

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

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 8363, Abram Orbach, born 1907 at Lodz, who had come from Lodz; 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 233 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 34, born at Lodz, a building technician, Polish; relatives abroad: a cousin, A. H. Stebel, 3131 Hyde Park Boulevard, Los Angeles.
• 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 pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  He left Kobe on the Taiyo Maru on 18 July 1941, bound for Burma (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Orbach Abram". (Taiyo Maru, Kobe, 18 July 1941, destination Burma.)

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