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.

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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…
  Entry 19 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 42, born at Lodz, a teacher, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 3 January 1941.
• 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
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Jonas Browerman, 1941: born about 1900, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seat…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Jonas Browerman, born about 1900 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1900, and the two agree. 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.
• 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 Yokohama on the Heian Maru ("Heyan M.") on 17 July 1941, bound for Canada (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Braverman Jonas — Polish — Yokohama — Canada". (Heian Maru ("Heyan M."), Yokohama, 17 July 1941, destination Canada.)
• 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 Jonas Brawerman, 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 719, Bramerman Jona, born 1899 at Łódź, who came from Łódź; the year agrees with the age the register gives, and the town with what the archive already holds.
• The HEIAN, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Adolf Weinstein — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arri…
• Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Adolf Weinstein — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lis…

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