Marjan Frajman

Marjan Frajman received transit visa no. 313 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 19.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

19

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• 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 64 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1921 at Warszawa; relatives abroad: a father, Urysz Frajman, 1575 Townsend Avenue, Bronx, New York.
• 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 143 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 20, born at Warsaw, a merchant, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 February 1941.
• 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 313)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Marjan Frajman, 1941: born about 1921, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco)…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Marjan Frajman, born about 1921 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1921, and the two agree. 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.
• Draft registration card of Marjan Frajman, Bronx, New York, 15 February 1942 (NARA, draft registration cards for New York City; read on FamilySearch)
  Marjan Frajman registered for the American draft in the Bronx on 15 February 1942: born 4 February 1921 at Warsaw, brown-eyed, five feet ten, employed by Urysz Frajman, who is No. 207 on this register and sailed from Kobe on the President Cleveland in October 1940. The register's compiled line gives his age as 19 in 1940, which the card's birth date confirms. (FamilySearch's copy of the National Archives' draft registration cards for New York City.)
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Marjan Frajman, born in 1921, of Warsaw, son of Urisz, who was in Wilno during the war; the year, the city and his father's name agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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