Jakow Kenner

Jakow Kenner received transit visa no. 770 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records journalist, aged 56.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

56

Occupation

Journalist

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Jacob Kenner, 1940: born about 1884, Lithuania. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Jacob Kenner, born about 1884 in Lithuania, arriving at San Francisco in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1884, 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 Coolidge, sailing from Kobe 9 November 1940, arrived San Francisco November 1940 (NARA, passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco, M1410, film 366; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  The President Coolidge sailed from Kobe on 9 November 1940, took shore leave at Honolulu on the 17th and landed at San Francisco in the following week; its manifest, seven names on the page, has Jacob Kenner, aged 56, married, a journalist, Lithuanian, born at Vilnius, last residence Vilnius, on an American transit visa, No. 10, issued at Kaunas on 22 July 1940. The register gives his age as 56. The trade is the same. (The sheet is in the National Archives' passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco, microfilm M1410; the archive read FamilySearch's copy.)
• Leads — the Yiddish press of New York and Latin America, 1945–1975 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: the Yiddish writer Yankev Kener, a Left Poale Zion journalist in Warsaw until 1939 and author of the memoir Kvershnit, was writing in New York after the war (Fraye Arbeter Shtime, 23 November 1951; National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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