Benjamin Grynberg

Benjamin Grynberg received transit visa no. 598 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 30.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

30

Occupation

Lawyer

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for South Africa.

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…
  1803, b.1908
• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  1911 Miedzyrzec; Polish; cousin A.Arendarz, Larrea 773, Buenos Aires
• 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…
  No 253; age 30; born Miedzyrzec; Lawyer; arr 13.2; from Vilno
• 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 598)
• S.S. Manila Maru, Kobe to South Africa, 29 May 1941 — list of refugee passengers, HICEM meeting half the cost of the passages. JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00053, item 00766. One sheet carries four sailings; this is…
  Named on the passenger list of the Manila Maru, which sailed from Kobe for South Africa on 29 May 1941. A sailing list rather than an arrival record: it shows the journey begun, not finished.