Przewozman Abram

Przewozman Abram received transit visa no. 1931 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records worker, aged 45.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

45

Occupation

Worker

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1436) — found on reading the ledger page itself — the ledger reads: Przewozman Abraham, labourer, born 20 September 1894 Siedlce, married; registered 13 December 1941; 128 Alcock Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 3 December 1941 — found on reading the page.
• HIAS Shanghai (the Far Eastern Jewish Central Information Bureau for Emigrants, M. Birman, manager) to HIAS New York: the list of refugees who left Shanghai during August 1946 — sixteen names on the first sheet, all sailing on 11 August…
  HIAS Shanghai's list of refugees who left Shanghai during August 1946 names a 'Przewozman, Abraham' among the sixteen who sailed on 11 August 1946 aboard the S.S. Marine Lynx for the United States. Under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 a name on a list of the Sugihara refugees' own route counts as a corroboration when the full name occurs once on the register and the record's place and date fit the route; all three hold here, and the line is attached on that basis.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Abraham Prezewozman, 1946: born about 1894, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franc…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Abraham Prezewozman, born about 1894 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the Marine Lynx. The register's compiled line gives 1895, and the two are 1 year apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1946 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 384, image 30, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, their lists and sailings, Shanghai 1945–1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  The Agudath Israel organisation of refugees from Poland in Shanghai listed him among its members on 24 December 1945: Abram Przewozman, born in 1894 in Siedlce, Polish passport No. P-87/1/22/41 issued in Shanghai on 3 December 1941. The UNRRA China Office kept the list with its 1946 registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students. He was one of the Agudath Israel delegates to the movement's world convention in the United States in 1946, living at 119 Wayside Road, and left Shanghai for San Francisco on the Marine Lynx on 11 August 1946. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)

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