Boleslaw Graubart
Visa no. 841 · Kaunas, 2 August 1940
Boleslaw Graubart received transit visa no. 841 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 38.
What the register records
- Nationality as recorded
- Polnisch
- Age in 1940
- 38
- Occupation
- Lawyer
- Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
- wife Hanna
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
Where this comes from
- "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Benjamin Graubert, 1941: born about 1903, 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 Benjamin Graubert, born about 1903 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1902, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco 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. - Manifest of alien passengers, SS President Cleveland, voyage 85, sailing from Kobe, Japan, February 13, 1941, arrived San Francisco date not read (US National Archives, M1410, film 368; read on FamilySearch's copy)
The National Archives' San Francisco passenger list (FamilySearch's copy) shows a 38-year-old lawyer from Płock, entered as Benjamin Graubert, sailing from Kobe on the President Cleveland on 13 February 1941 in transit, to join his grandfather Rabbi M. Graubart in the Bronx; the list gives the first name Benjamin, not Bolesław. - 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 lists Benjamin Graubart, aged 39, born at Plock, a lawyer. Sugihara's ledger writes his given name Boleslaw; the register, like the compilers, has Benjamin. - 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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