Friedlander Alfred received transit visa no. 1967 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. Aged 54 in 1940.
Documents
S.S. Hikawa Maru manifest, sheet 11 — sailed Yokohama, arrived Seattle 25 February 1941: line 3, Friedlander Alfred, 38, single, attorney, German, Hebrew — with a US visa issued at Stockholm in January 1941 and last permanent residence Falun, Sweden, among a group that reached Japan by the Swedish-Soviet route. Supplied by Prof. Ruth Leiserowitz, Aug 2026
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What the register records
Nationality as recorded
German
Age in 1940
54
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Ella?
The journey
Reached Shanghai; destination given in the Kitade-Bluman list: Australia.
Where this comes from
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… The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 38, born at Preuss, a lawyer, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 14 January 1941.
JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry — Walnut Hills Cemetery and the Weil Funeral Home records, Cincinnati, Ohio A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: an Alfred Jacob Friedlander, born on 9 December 1902, died at Cincinnati on 21 October 1966 and is buried in the Walnut Hills Cemetery there. The year fits the age of 38 the Kobe register gives him; nothing else on the record ties it to him. In the JewishGen burial registry, read 18 October 2026.
Prof. Dr Ruth Leiserowitz (Berlin), correspondence of 20 August… — research notes on six lines of the register, drawn from Lithuanian, German and United States records. What she found for each person is set out on that person's own entry.
S.S. Hikawa Maru manifest, sheet 11 — sailed Yokohama, arrived Seattle 25 February 1941: line 3, Friedlander Alfred, 38, single, attorney, German, Hebrew — with a US visa issued at Stockholm in January 1941 and last permanent residence F…