Szafran Nachman

Szafran Nachman received transit visa no. 1936 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 48.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

48

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

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

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…
  238; 1892; nice-Hela Szajniak 136 Ben Jehuda Tel Aviv
• hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Nachman Natan Szafran, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Nachman Natan Szafran, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.1936 'zafran Nachman' records age 48; the manifest gives born 1892, arriving 19
• 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 1936)