Braverman Jonas

Braverman Jonas received transit visa no. 1726 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. The register records hebrew teacher, aged 40.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

40

Occupation

Hebrew Teacher

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.

Where this comes from

• The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…
  #19, 42, born Lodz, teacher, arr 3.1, from Kaunas
• hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Jonas Browerman, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Jonas Browerman, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.1726 'Browerman Jonas' records age 40; the manifest gives born 1900, arriving 1941. C