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…
  2848, Bafow, b.1918
• 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…
  230, 23, b. Rakow, yeshiva, from Kovno
• 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' (list of Polish citizens evacuated from the Far East), page 1 — A. s/…
  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