Ofman Paulina

Ofman Paulina received transit visa no. 1876 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. The register records infirmier, aged 32.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

32

Occupation

Infirmier

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #1949, child Wolf (8)

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Wolf — child, aged 8

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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 202 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1908 at Grodno; relatives abroad: an uncle, Arkin, Boston, Forward.
• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 33, born at Grodno, a nurse, who arrived in Japan on 24 February 1941.
• 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 24 Feb 1941 (line 1876)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Daulina Ofman, 1941: born about 1908, 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 Daulina Ofman, born about 1908 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1908, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco 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.
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS Kamakura Maru, sailing from Yokohama March 27th 1941, arrived San Francisco April 10th 1941 (US National Archives, M1410, film 369; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  She reached San Francisco on 10 April 1941 on the Kamakura Maru with her husband Józef and their son, on American visitor's visas issued at Kaunas, according to the passenger list held by the National Archives (FamilySearch's copy). Her husband's name and their son are the family the register's compilers recorded for her.
• 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 Paulina Ofman, born in 1908, of Warsaw, wife of Josef, who was in Lithuania during the war; the year and her husband's name agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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