Brandys Lejb

Brandys Lejb received transit visa no. 1938 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 41.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

41

Occupation

Lawyer

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; 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 34 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 41, born at Warsaw, a lawyer; relatives abroad: a brother, L. Brandys, and a father, Jakob Dawid Brandys, Kfar Giladi 44, Tel Aviv, Palestine.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Lajb Brandys, 1941: born about 1900, 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 Lajb Brandys, born about 1900 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1899, 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 Nitta Maru, sailing from Yokohama 20 March 1941, arrived San Francisco 1 April 1941 (US National Archives, M1410, film 368; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  He landed at San Francisco on 1 April 1941 from the Nitta Maru out of Yokohama, a Warsaw-born lawyer travelling on a US transit-class visitor's visa issued in Moscow on 18 February 1941; he left his wife in Warsaw and was going to a cousin on West 80th Street in New York (manifest held by the US National Archives, read on FamilySearch's copy).
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Lejb Brandys, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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