Betty Brecher

Betty Brecher received transit visa no. 760 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. Aged 38 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

38

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

child Bernd (8)

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Bernd — child, aged 8

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

• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Betty Brecher, 1940: born about 1902, Lithuania. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisc…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Betty Brecher, born about 1902 in Lithuania, arriving at San Francisco in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1902, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a passenger born in Lithuania landing at San Francisco in 1940 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, sailing from Kobe 10 October 1940, arrived San Francisco late October 1940 (NARA, passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco, M1410, film 365; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  The President Cleveland sailed from Kobe on 10 October 1940, took shore leave at Honolulu on the 19th and landed at San Francisco in the last week of October; its manifest has Betty Brecher, aged 38, a housewife, reading English and German, born at Klaipėda (Memel), last residence Kaunas, with her son Bernd, 8, each on a quota immigration visa, Nos. 358 and 359, issued at Kaunas on 19 June 1940. The register's line gives her age as 38 and a child Bernd of 8.
• JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry — Sharon Gardens, Valhalla, New York
  Betty Brecher, born Lewinsohn, is buried at Sharon Gardens in Valhalla, New York, in the section of the Temple Israel Center of White Plains. The burial register gives her birth as 23 January 1902 and her death as 8 February 1987. In the JewishGen burial registry, read 18 October 2026.

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