Josef Frenkel
Visa no. 535 · Kaunas, 31 July 1940
Josef Frenkel received transit visa no. 535 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records rabbi, aged 33.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polnisch Age in 1940 33 Occupation Rabbi The journey Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.
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… 1523, Warszawa, 1907, from Warszawa 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…#5, 33, b. Ulanow, Rabbi, from Vilno, left for Frisco 16.12.40 Open this entry in the full register →
Josef Frenkel is one of 2,140 people recorded in the surviving register of the transit
visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
The Sugihara Visa Archive · how this was compiled
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