Perla Frankel received transit visa no. 282 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 24 in 1940.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
24
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife of #275, son Berl (3)
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for New Zealand.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Berl — son, aged 3
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.
What is known
Perla Frankel, a survivor saved by Sugihara visas, recalled rampant anti-Semitism in Poznan around 1933 with signs stating 'No dogs or Jews allowed' at cafes. Her family acted quickly, selling their car and renting a bus to leave Krakow for Lublin just after war began on September 2, 1939. She later escaped through the Soviet Union via the Trans-Siberian Railway to Vladivostok, boarding the Amakusa Maru to reach Tsuruga in Japan, fearing being sent to Siberia under Russian rule.
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… 145, 25, Krakow
"List of persons arriving on route to New Zealand" — the arrival roster for the sailing from Japan, September 1941: 33 typed names, from Dr George Bluman’s own marked-up copy (sent 18 Aug 2026). Bluman’s red ticks mark the passengers he… Named on the list of persons arriving on route to New Zealand, sailing from Japan in 1941. The register spells it Frenkiel.