Oser Kacman

Oser Kacman received transit visa no. 613 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 23.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

23

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

son of #614

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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 2848, Uszer Kacman, born 1918 at Raków, who had come from Mir; the year agrees with the register's age and Raków agrees with the archive's other records.
• 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 230 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 23, born at Rakow, a yeshiva student, who travelled from Kaunas.
• 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 25 Feb 1941 (line 613)
• Tadeusz Romer papers, Library and Archives Canada, MG 31 D 68, vol. 2 (microfilm reel C-10451, frame 1087): 'Lista obywateli polskich ewakuowanych z Dalekiego Wschodu… — cited by link only (Canadiana Heritage); frame image not republished
  The Tatuta Maru list (Yokohama, 30 July 1942) carries a 'KACMAN ......... z zona' (evacuees 11-12, given names left blank) among the civilians leaving Japan; the register has Oser and Pesia Kacman (Nos. 613-614) — name-only, tentative — radiogram of 27 July 1942 (frame 1086): 'authorities ordered Kacmans evacuate now' — the couple were moved up from the autumn list to the Tatuta Maru of 30 July
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Oszer Kacman, 1941: born about 1918, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco).…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Oszer Kacman, born about 1918 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1917, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS President Cleveland, voyage 85, sailing from Kobe, Japan, February 13, 1941, arrived San Francisco date not read (US National Archives, M1410, film 368; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  The same list shows Oszer Kacman, a 23-year-old student born in Rakaŭ, sailing from Kobe with his mother on the President Cleveland in February 1941, his nearest relative left behind an aunt in Mir.
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Oszer Kacman, born in 1918, of Mir, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and the town agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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