Frankel Dawid

Frankel Dawid received transit visa no. 1653 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 56.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

56

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #275

The journey

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

What is known

Dawid Fraenkel, age 57, a clerk born in Warsaw of Polish citizenship, appears on the Kobe refugee list.

30 Fraenkel Dawid 57 Warsaw clerk Polish

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 30 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 57, born at Warsaw, a clerk, Polish.
• 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 1171) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Frankel Dawid, merchant, born 15 June 1884 Warsaw, married; registered 27 September 1941; passport by the Polish Embassy in Tokyo 15 September 1941, valid to 14 September 1942.
• 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)
  By March 1946 the American Joint Distribution Committee's migration department in Shanghai had processed David Frankel, of 114/38-5 Wayside Road, for Wellington, New Zealand, where his contact was B. W. Frankel. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0165, Displaced Persons — Polish: repatriation and emigration correspondence, Shanghai 1945–1947 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  In March 1946 the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee certified to UNRRA that David Frankel, of 114/38-5 Wayside Road, was a Polish refugee holding a visa for New Zealand and an exit visa, and UNRRA's Shanghai office undertook to guarantee the passage to New Zealand of Mrs. Milgrom and Mr. Frankel. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 28 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 28 March 1946, lists David Fraenkel: born 1884 at Warsaw, an industrialist, arrived in 1941 by way of Siberia; the year and the town agree with the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• 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…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 147 (left): entries 1170-1177 — Milgrom Hinda (cosmetician, b. 8 Dec 1910 Krakow), Frankel Dawid (merchant, b. 15 Jun 1884 Warsaw), the DRILLER family of Krakow industrialists — Rudolf (b. 1879 Rzeszow), Mirla (b. 1…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 147 (right): entries 1170-1177 — Milgrom Hinda (cosmetician, b. 8 Dec 1910 Krakow), Frankel Dawid (merchant, b. 15 Jun 1884 Warsaw), the DRILLER family of Krakow industrialists — Rudolf (b. 1879 Rzeszow), Mirla (b.…

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