Pesia Kacman

Pesia Kacman received transit visa no. 614 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. Aged 42 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

42

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

mother of #613

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  42, b. Delatycze, arr. 2.2, from Kovno
• 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) 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'