Blit Abram

Blit Abram received transit visa no. 1935 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 33.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

33

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

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 18 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1906.
• 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…
  Entry 54 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 35, a clerk, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 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 25 Feb 1941 (line 1935)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Abraham Blit, 1941: born about 1907, 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 Abraham Blit, born about 1907 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1907, 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)
  He reached San Francisco on 10 April 1941 on the Kamakura Maru from Yokohama on an American visitor's visa, sponsored through the American Federation of Labor, according to the passenger list held by the National Archives (FamilySearch's copy). The list names his father as Wolf Blit of Twarda Street, Warsaw.
• Forverts (New York), 17 April 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Abram Blit, a young labour activist from Poland, was among the 29 Jewish political refugees whose arrival in New York, by way of Siberia and Japan with the help of the Jewish Labor Committee, the Forverts reported on 17 April 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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