Erhard Friedrich Sinasohn

Visa no. 472 · Kaunas, 31 July 1940

Erhard Friedrich Sinasohn received transit visa no. 472 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 56.

What the register records

Reached Japan; 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 29 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 53 (the figure is faint and may be 58), born at Czarnikau, a manager, listed under Luxembourg, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 13 January 1941; left for the USA on 25 January 1941.
"California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — the President Taft, Kobe to San Francisco, 8 February 1941 (NARA M1410 roll 367), images 61–63: the Sinasohn household
The President Taft's manifest, Kobe to San Francisco, sworn at San Francisco on 8 February 1941, read by the archive on 3 October 2026: Sinasohn, Erhard, 52, married, a merchant, reading English and German, a Luxembourg national, born at Berlin, on transit certificate No. 8 issued at Moscow on 23 December 1940; in the United States before, in New York in 1933; going to his stepson Robert Nast at 319 West 94th Street, New York, the passage paid by the son. His wife Kathe (No. 467) and Werner Nast (No. 466) are on the lines beside him. The Kobe community's register has the same household leaving for the United States on 25 January 1941. Ages differ between the records (52 here, 53 at Kobe, 56 on the compiled list).