Frydman Jakob

Frydman Jakob received transit visa no. 1888 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. The register records dental mechanic, aged 27.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

27

Occupation

Dental Mechanic

The journey

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

What is known

Jakob Frydman, age 28, a teeth technician born in Biala Podlaska of Polish citizenship, appears on the Kobe refugee list. The Kobe committee recorded a cousin, H. Frydman, at an address in the Bronx, New York — the relative he named as his contact in 1941.

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…
  6638, b.1913 Biala Podl., from Biala Podl.
• 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…
  31; 28; Biala Podl.; teeth techn; cousin H.FRydman 1045 Wheller Ave Bronx NY