Szwarcman Aleksander

Szwarcman Aleksander received transit visa no. 1854 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. The register records keeper godown, aged 22.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Lithuanien

Age in 1940

22

Occupation

Keeper Godown

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

son of #1853, #1897, wifeTamara (24)

The journey

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

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 an Aleksander Szwarcbaum at entry 7778, born 1917 at Odessa (Russia), who had come from Warszawa; the register spells the surname Szwarcman, so the archive shows the entry as a lead, not as this person's record.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 2 Feb 1941 (line 1854)
• 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 Aleksander Szwarcman, a teacher born in 1917, of Warsaw, son of Joseph and Golda, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and his parents' names agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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