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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 42, born at Delatycze, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 2 February 1941.
• 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) 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'
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Pesia Kacman or Kolmonovitch, 1941: born about 1898, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Pesia Kacman or Kolmonovitch, born about 1898 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1898, and the two agree. 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 National Archives' San Francisco passenger list (FamilySearch's copy) shows Pesia Kacman, a widow born in Delatycze, sailing from Kobe on the President Cleveland on 13 February 1941 with her son Oszer, in transit, to her brother Abraham Kolmonovitch in Brooklyn.
• 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 Pesia Kacman, born in 1897, of Mir, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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