Herman Bock

Herman Bock received transit visa no. 326 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records engineer, aged 30.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

30

Occupation

Engineer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Marja (26)

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Argentina.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Marja — wife, aged 26

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 484, Herman Bak, born 1910 at Warszawa, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 2 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 30, born at Warsaw, an engineer, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 14 December 1940; left for Buenos Aires on 21 January 1941.
• "California, Los Angeles, Passenger Lists, 1907-1948", FamilySearch — index entry for Herman Bock, 1941: born about 1911, Warsaw, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1764 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at Los Angeles…
  FamilySearch's index of the Los Angeles passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Herman Bock, born about 1911 in Warsaw, Poland, arriving at Los Angeles in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1910, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Los Angeles 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 in transit, SS Buenos Aires Maru, sailing from Kobe 21 January 1941, at the port of Los Angeles February 1941 (NARA A3385, lists of passengers arriving at San Pedro/Los Angeles in transit; read on FamilySearc…
  The Buenos Aires Maru sailed from Kobe on 21 January 1941 for South America and called at the port of Los Angeles in early February, where her through passengers were kept on board; its manifest has Herman Bock, aged 30, married, an engineer, born at Warsaw, last residence Wilno, with his wife Maria, 26, on the line below; the purser gave their nationality as Slovak, for which the sheet offers no explanation. The register gives his age as 30, his trade as engineer, his wife Marja as 26, and Argentina as his destination, which is where this ship was bound. (The sheet is in the National Archives' lists of passengers arriving at San Pedro and Los Angeles in transit, microfilm publication A3385; the archive read FamilySearch's copy.)

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