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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 1803, Benjamin-Uszer Grytenberg, born 1908 at Warszawa, who came from Warszawa; the year, 1908, agrees with the register's compiled age, but the surname is typed Grytenberg, not Grynberg, which leaves the identification open, so the archive shows the entry as a lead, not as an identification.
• 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 8165, Bencjan Grynberg, born 1911 at Miedzyrzec, who had come from Miedzyrzec; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and Międzyrzec agrees with what the archive already holds.
• 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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1911 at Miedzyrzec, Polish; relatives abroad: a 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…
  Entry 253 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 30, born at Miedzyrzec, a lawyer, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 13 February 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 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.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  He left Kobe on the Manila Maru on 29 May 1941, bound for South Africa (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Grinberg Benjamin". (Manila Maru, Kobe, 29 May 1941.)

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