Milgrom Srul
Visa no. 1881 · Kaunas, 17 August 1940
Milgrom Srul received transit visa no. 1881 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. The register records tailor, aged 30.
What the register records
- Nationality as recorded
- Polnisch
- Age in 1940
- 30
- Occupation
- Tailor
- Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
- wife Rosa (30)
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
- Rosa — wife, aged 30
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
- "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Srul Milgrom, 1941: born about 1911, 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 Srul Milgrom, born about 1911 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1910, and the two are 1 year apart. 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)
He and his wife Roza reached San Francisco on 10 April 1941 on the Kamakura Maru from Yokohama on American visitor's visas, sponsored through the American Federation of Labor in New York, according to the passenger list held by the National Archives (FamilySearch's copy). The list gives his birthplace as Kałuszyn. - Forverts (New York), 17 April 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: the Forverts of 17 April 1941 lists, among the Jewish political refugees from Poland who had just reached New York by way of Siberia and Japan, a needle worker named Israel Milgrom, an activist of the socialist youth movement (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
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