Are Kronenberg

Are Kronenberg received transit visa no. 785 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records bookbinder, aged 31.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

31

Occupation

Bookbinder

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 2576, Arie Kronenberg, born 1908 at Wyszków, who came from Wyszków; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and the town with what the archive already holds for this line.
• 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 93 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 33, born at Warsaw, who arrived in Japan on 24 January 1941.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 24 Jan 1941 (line 785)
• M.S. Hie Maru, Kobe 4 May – Yokohama 7 May – Seattle 18 May 1941, sheet 4 of 11 — transcribed for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild by David Rosen
  Hie Maru passenger no. 96; 32y 9m; Bookbinder; b. Wyszkow, Poland; last residence Wilno, Lithuania; US visa Q.I.V.1789, issued Yokohama, 5-2-1941; to Brooklyn, N.Y; joining Brother, Sol Kronenberg, 558 Bedford Ave. Brooklyn, N.Y.; nearest relative left behind: No relative, Wilno, Lithuania
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Arja Kronenberg, 1941: born about 1909, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seat…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Arja Kronenberg, born about 1909 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1909, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle 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.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  He left Yokohama on the Hie Maru on 7 May 1941, bound for the USA (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Kronenberg Arja". (Hie Maru, Yokohama, 7 May 1941.)
• A ship, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Arja Kronenberg — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arrivin…
• Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Are Kronenberg — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew List…

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