Kohn Aron

Kohn Aron received transit visa no. 1585 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 9 August 1940. The register records wood specialist, aged 30.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

30

Occupation

Wood Specialist

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1183) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — The ledger reads: Kohn Aron-Binem, inspector (brakarz), born 9 June 1910 Rypin, single; 54 Kwenming Road apt 6; Tokyo-issued passport of 18 June 1941 (Ser. II 004080) on a British Legation Kaunas certificate of 9 August 1940 (K-408). The two-Aron-Kohns doubt is settled by the Kobe community's 1941 list, which has Aron Binen Kohn, 31, of Rypin, a wood specialist — this line's age and trade, not No. 253's.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Aron Binem Kohn, 1946: born about 1909, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Aron Binem Kohn, born about 1909 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1910, and the two are 1 year apart The two-Aron-Kohns doubt is settled by the Kobe community's 1941 list, which has Aron Binen Kohn, 31, of Rypin, a wood specialist — this line's age and trade, not No. 253's.
• 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. 24–32 — April 1941 (and a May continuation sheet)
  He left Japan for Shanghai on the Kobe Maru, from Kobe, 5 April 1941 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of refugees who left Japan for Shanghai, April 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Kohn Aron". (Kobe Maru, Kobe, 5 April 1941, Shanghai.)
• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's 1941 list of refugees and their relatives abroad has, at entry 148, Aron Binen Kohn, 31, born at Rypin, a wood specialist, with an uncle, Izaak Zylbersztejn, abroad. The register carries two Aron Kohns: this line, 30 and a wood specialist by the compilers, and No. 253, 45 and a manufacturer. The age and the trade are this line's.
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, their lists and sailings, Shanghai 1945–1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  The Agudath Israel organisation of refugees from Poland in Shanghai listed him among its members on 24 December 1945: Aron Bynem Kohn, born in 1910 in Rypin, Polish passport No. 324/729/30/VI/41 issued in Tokyo in June 1941. The UNRRA China Office kept the list with its 1946 registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students. In April 1946 he was named among the Agudath Israel delegates to the movement's world convention in the United States, for whom the organisation asked UNRRA to find places on aeroplanes. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 31 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 31 March 1946, lists Aron Binem Kohn: born 1910 at Rypin, in the lumber trade, arrived in 1941 from Vilnius; the year and the town agree with the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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