Frydman Simon

Frydman Simon received transit visa no. 2063 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 24.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

24

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

Where this comes from

• 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 8125, Szymon Frydman, born 1916, who had come from Krakow; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 80 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 25, born at Probusna, a clerk; relatives abroad: a brother, Dow Friedman, Petach Tikvah, Palestine.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  He left Kobe on the Fusimi Maru on 21 May 1941, bound for Bombay on the way to Palestine (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Friedman Simon — Polish — Kobe — Bombay". (Fusimi Maru, Kobe, 21 May 1941.)
• Haaretz, 2 February 1942, and HaTzofe, 3 February 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Simon Frydman's road to Palestine ran through India. He sailed from Kobe for Bombay in May 1941, and in February 1942 his name was among the immigrants then on their way from India to the Land of Israel, in lists printed by Haaretz (2 February) and HaTzofe (3 February 1942) (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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