Tiefenbrum Mojzesz

Tiefenbrum Mojzesz received transit visa no. 794 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 31.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

31

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  Entry 337 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 32, born at Oswiecim, a merchant; relatives abroad: a brother, A. Tiefenbrunn, 7 Borochow Street, Tel Aviv.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Mojzesz Joachim Tiefenbrunn, 1947: born about 1910, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at S…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Mojzesz Joachim Tiefenbrunn, born about 1910 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the General W. H. Gordon. The register's compiled line gives 1909, and the two are 1 year apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1947 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 387, image 526, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, Mizrachi members list and the United Board of Rabbis' birth-data pages, Shanghai 1945–46 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  A list of the members of the Mizrachi Organization of Polish War Refugees in Shanghai, dated 20 December 1945 and kept in the records of UNRRA's China Office, gives his birth as 20 July 1909 in Oswiecim, and his Polish passport as No. 492/729/26/IX/41, issued in Tokyo on 11 September 1941. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• HaTzofe, 14 October 1945 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Mojżesz Tiefenbrunn was one of the Mizrachi members from Poland in Shanghai who wrote to HaTzofe in September 1945; the letter, printed on 14 October 1945, names him among them (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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