Jakob Dymant

Jakob Dymant received transit visa no. 884 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 26.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

26

Occupation

Lawyer

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Burma.

What is known

Jakob Dymant, a law graduate from Warsaw, fled the city on September 5, 1939 and reached Vilna on October 23, 1939. In Kovno he obtained a Curacao visa from the Dutch Consulate on August 1, 1940 and a Sugihara transit visa (number 884) on August 2, 1940, traveling to Kobe, Japan, where he arrived February 13, 1941. With help from Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer he obtained a Burma visa, went via Shanghai to Burma, then fled to India after the Japanese attack in 1942, and immigrated to the United States in 1946, settling in New York and marrying Zofia Benet Dzialoszynska in 1948.

he obtained a Curaçao visa from the Dutch Consulate on August 1, 1940 and a Sugihara visa (number 884) on August 2, 1940 He traveled from there to Kobe, Japan, arriving on February 13, 1941. He immigrated to the United States in 1946, sailing from Alexandria, Egypt, aboard the SS President Taft.

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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1914 at Brzeziny, Polish; relatives abroad: an uncle, G. Diamond, 2154 A 74, Brooklyn, New York; a cousin, N. Dymaht, Mejasha Arim, Avodas Jad, Jerusalem.
• 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 128 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 27, born at Brzeziny, a lawyer, who travelled from Vilnius.
• 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 884)
• 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 I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  He left Kobe on the Taiyo Maru on 18 July 1941, bound for Burma (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Dymant Jakub". (Taiyo Maru, Kobe, 18 July 1941, destination Burma.)
• Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• USHMM — Jakob & Zofia Dymant papers (File 1: Jakob Dymant 1939-1946, 49 pp.)
• Jakob Dymant — full-resolution pages (USHMM originals)

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