Gross Priva

Gross Priva received transit visa no. 2133 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 23 August 1940. Aged 29 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polisch

Age in 1940

29

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband Feliks (34)--lawyer

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Feliks — husband, aged 34

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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 2163, Priwa Grossowa, born 1911 at Kraków, who came from Kraków; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and her husband Feliks Gross, born 1906 at Kraków, stands just above her on the list, as the register names him with her.
• 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 64 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 50, born at Wieliczka.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Priwa Gross, 1941: born about 1912, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco). R…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Priwa Gross, born about 1912 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1911, 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 Tatuta Maru, sailing from Yokohama 6 March 1941, arrived San Francisco 20 March 1941 (US National Archives, M1410, film 368; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  The National Archives' passenger list of the Tatuta Maru (FamilySearch's copy) records Priwa Gross, 29, born in Wieliczka, and her husband Feliks Gross, 34, a lawyer born in Kraków, sailing from Yokohama in March 1941 on US transit visas issued in Tokyo, their last home Wilno. They were going to Feliks's brother, Dr. Ludwig Gross, in Cincinnati.

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