Josef Frenkiel

Visa no. 535 · Kaunas, 31 July 1940

Josef Frenkiel 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

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

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…
The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 1523, Józef Frenkiel, born 1907 at Warszawa, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
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 5 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 33, born at Ulanow, a rabbi, who travelled from Vilnius; left for San Francisco on 16 December 1940.
Manifest of alien passengers, SS Tatuta Maru, sailing from Japan (port and date not read), arrived San Francisco January 1, 1941 (US National Archives, M1410, film 367; read on FamilySearch's copy)
Josef Fraenkel, 33, a rabbi born in Ulanów, reached San Francisco on the Tatuta Maru on 1 January 1941 on a US immigration visa issued in Moscow, going to his wife Lilien in Brooklyn, according to the passenger manifest held by the US National Archives (FamilySearch's copy). The manifest gives his nationality as German and his father as Eliasz Frankel of Rohatyn.