Chaim Aron Kalmanowicz

Chaim Aron Kalmanowicz received transit visa no. 816 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records engineer, aged 31.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

31

Occupation

Engineer

The journey

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

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 2996, Chaim Aron Kalmanowicz, born 1909 at Werenów, who had come from Zgierz; the year agrees with the register's age.
• 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 127 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1909 at Woronowo, Polish; relatives abroad: a brother, Bekelmanowicz, Apartado 332 (reading uncertain), Barankuilla, Columbia; an uncle, J. Kalman, 13500 Commonwealth Avenue, Alliston (reading uncertain), Massachusetts.
• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 32, born at Woronowo, a farmer, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 13 February 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 816)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Chaim Kalmanowicz, 1948: born about 1909, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francis…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Chaim Kalmanowicz, born about 1909 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1948 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1909, and the two are 0 years apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The sheet names the ship but its heading could not be read for the port she sailed from, so this is held as a lead until it can. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 397, image 498, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• The numbered Sugihara visa list, the page of 2 August 1940 carrying Nos. 795 to 865 (among them No. 805, Szaps Jaskolka), photographed beside a ruler.

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