Rozalia Gordon

Rozalia Gordon received transit visa no. 279 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 40 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

40

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #278

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 183 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 41, born at Brzesc.
• 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 279)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Roza Gordon, 1941: born about 1901, 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 Roza Gordon, born about 1901 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1900, 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 President Pierce, sailing from Kobe 14 March 1941, arrived San Francisco 29 March 1941 (US National Archives, M1410, film 368; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  She arrived at San Francisco with her husband and daughter on 29 March 1941 aboard the President Pierce from Kobe; the manifest gives her birthplace as Brześć and the family's destination as relatives in Jamaica, New York (manifest held by the US National Archives, read on FamilySearch's copy).

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