Fiszman Jankiel

Fiszman Jankiel received transit visa no. 1971 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records journalist, aged 49.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

49

Occupation

Journalist

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

father of #1970

The journey

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

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…
  Entry 140 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 50, born at Siedlce, a journalist, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 24 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 24 Feb 1941 (line 1971)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Jankiel Fiszmann, 1948: born about 1889, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisc…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Jankiel Fiszmann, born about 1889 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1948 on the General W. H. Gordon. The register's compiled line gives 1891, and the two are 2 years 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 1948 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 401, image 835, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 28 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 28 March 1946, lists Jankiel H. Fiszman: born 1891 at Siedlce, a journalist, arrived in 1941 from Wilno by way of Kobe; the year, the town and the trade agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• 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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad has Jankiel Hersz Fiszman, born in 1891 at Siedlce.
• List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 1512, Jakub-Hersz Fiszman, born in 1891 at Warszawa, who came from Warszawa. Jozef Fiszman, born in 1918, is the next entry.

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