Michal Weissbard

Michal Weissbard received transit visa no. 440 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records clerk, aged 41.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

41

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Brazil.

Where this comes from

• 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 192 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 41, born at Warsaw, a clerk, who arrived in Japan on 2 January 1941; left for Brazil on 21 January 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 2 Jan 1941 (line 440)
• "California, Los Angeles, Passenger Lists, 1907-1948", FamilySearch — index entry for Michael Weissbard, 1941: born about 1901, Warsaw, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1764 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at Los A…
  FamilySearch's index of the Los Angeles passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Michael Weissbard, born about 1901 in Warsaw, Poland, arriving at Los Angeles in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1899. A lead only: the register carries 2 lines of this name, and the index entry cannot be assigned to one of them without the manifest sheet.
• 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 Michael Weissbard, aged 40, single, a merchant, reading English and French, Polish, born at Warsaw, last residence Kaunas, with no American visa because he was only passing through. The register gives his age as 41, his trade as clerk, and his destination as Brazil, which is where this ship was going; the register carries a second entry for the same man. (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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