Adolf Binderman

Adolf Binderman received transit visa no. 352 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 40.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

40

Occupation

Lawyer

The journey

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

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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1901 at Lwow; relatives abroad: S. Wajsman, 320 B 176th Street, New York City.
• 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 47 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 40, born at Lwow, a lawyer, who travelled from Vilnius.
• 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… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  He left Kobe on the Manila Maru on 29 May 1941, bound for South Africa (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Binderman Adolf". (Manila Maru, Kobe, 29 May 1941.)
• The Jewish birth registers of Lwów, 1900–1924 (Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych, zespół 300), as indexed by archival.name
  Adolf Binderman was born at Lwów on 30 June 1901, as Adolf Jakób, the son of Salomon Binderman, a sergeant in the Austrian army, and Chaya, also Klara, according to the Jewish birth register of Lwów. The match rests on more than the name: the Kobe community's list gives this line the same birth year and birthplace. (Read on archival.name's index of the Lwów births; the register is in the Central Archives of Historical Records, Warsaw.)
• HaMashkif, 15 September 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: in September 1941 the Revisionist movement's secretariat for Poland, in Tel Aviv, asked an Adolf Binderman to get in touch (HaMashkif, 15 September 1941) (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press); the notice does not say where he was, so it is shown as a lead.

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