Nechuma Brandt

Nechuma Brandt received transit visa no. 778 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. Aged 17 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

17

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

daughter of #775, #769

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 6631, Nechama Brandt, born 1923 at Lodz, who came from Lodz; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and her parents Chaim and Malka, both on the register (Nos. 775 and 769), stand above her on the list.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Nechuma Brandt, 1940: born about 1923, Poland. 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 Nechuma Brandt, born about 1923 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1923, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger 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 Nechuma Brand, aged 13, single, a student, Polish, last residence Wilno, on an American transit visa, No. 12, issued at Kaunas on 22 July 1940, with her parents Chaim and Malka on the lines above. The register gives her age as 17, four years more than the purser wrote; the parents and the visa numbers in sequence leave no doubt she is the daughter. (The sheet is in the National Archives' passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco, microfilm M1410; the archive read FamilySearch's copy.)

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