Frankiel Schabse

Visa no. 374 · Kaunas, 30 July 1940

Frankiel Schabse received transit visa no. 374 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 31.

What the register records

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

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 38 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 32, born at Biala, a merchant, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 2 January 1941.
Manifest of alien passengers, SS Tatuta Maru, sailing from Kobe 4 March 1941, arrived San Francisco 20 March 1941 (US National Archives, M1410, film 368; read on FamilySearch's copy)
He arrived at San Francisco on 20 March 1941 aboard the Tatuta Maru from Kobe with his wife, on a US visitor's visa issued at Kobe on 28 February 1941, sponsored by the Agudath Israel Youth Council; the manifest gives his birthplace as Biała, his father as Joseph Fraenkel of Nowolipki 12, Warsaw, and his destination as a cousin, Rabbi Samuel Ehrenfeld, in New York (manifest held by the US National Archives, read on FamilySearch's copy).