Aleksander Tempel

Aleksander Tempel received transit visa no. 661 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 55.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

55

Occupation

Lawyer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Gustawa (53)

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Gustawa — wife, aged 53

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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…
  Entry 182 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 56, born at Czestochowa, a lawyer, who arrived in Japan on 2 January 1941; left for the USA on 21 January 1941.
• Manifest of alien passengers, MS Kamakura Maru, sailing from Yokohama, Japan, February 1941 (day hidden), arrived San Francisco Feb. 6, 1941 (US National Archives, M1410, film 367; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  Aleksander Temple, 55, a lawyer born in Częstochowa, reached San Francisco on the Kamakura Maru on 6 February 1941 with his wife Gustawa, 53, going to their son George Temple in New York, according to the passenger manifest held by the US National Archives (FamilySearch's copy).

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