Syma Oberman

Syma Oberman received transit visa no. 245 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 31 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

31

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #256

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for South Africa.

Where this comes from

• 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 3 Jan 1941 (line 245)
• S.S. Africa Maru, Kobe to South Africa, April 1941 — list of refugee passengers, HICEM meeting half the cost of the passages. JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00053, item 00766. One sheet carries four sailings; this is t…
  The passenger list of the Africa Maru, sailing from Kobe for South Africa in April 1941, is two lines long, and both are this family: “Oberman Izrael” and “Oberman Sima (wife)”, two persons, fifty United States cents. The register records them independently as husband and wife, both bound for South Africa. This is a sailing list rather than an arrival record: it shows them leaving Kobe, not reaching Cape Town.
• 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 I pp. 24–32 — April 1941 (and a May continuation sheet)
  She left Kobe on the Africa Maru on 30 April 1941, bound for South Africa (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of refugees who left Japan in April 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "″ Sima". (Africa Maru, Kobe, 30 April 1941, South Africa.)
• 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 4216, Oberman Syma, born 1910 at Warsaw, who came from Warsaw, beside her husband Izrael; the year agrees with the age the register gives.

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