Brand Solomon-stefan

Brand Solomon-stefan received transit visa no. 889 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records engineer, aged 42.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

42

Occupation

Engineer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #890, wife Dr Miekowska Sra Brun

The journey

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

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…
  No.23, 1898 Zarki, polish; cousins Pinkus 104 Crescent Hights Blvd Los Angelos, Woolf 8 B Morgan Str Bow E/3 London
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1181) — the register's own 'Bram Solomon-Stefan' (No.889), matched on reading the pages; supersedes the earlier attribution of this entry to No.27 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Bram Salomon-Stefan, born 15 February 1898 Zarki, married; Katowice passport of 4 July 1938 (Ser. I 930385) extended by the British Legation in Kaunas 6 December 1939 (B-341) and 1940 (B-491/2); his wife Sara Bram nee Minkowska, CHEMIST, born 1897 Bobrujsk, is entry 1180 on her own Tokyo-issued passport of 22 August 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 25 Feb 1941 (line 889)
• Tadeusz Romer papers, Library and Archives Canada, MG 31 D 68, vol. 2 (microfilm reel C-10451, frame 1088): 'Lista obywateli polskich ewakuowanych z Dalekiego Wschodu', page 2 — Kamakura Maru, Shanghai 16 August 1942: officials (the Rome…
  Named on the Polish Embassy's list of Polish citizens evacuated from the Far East on the exchange ship s/s Kamakura Maru, Shanghai, 16 August 1942 — one of the 41 'civilian refugees' for whom Ambassador Romer obtained places (evacuee no. 62, 'BRAM Salomon Stefan z zona Sara (evacuees 62-63)'); the party sailed with Romer to Lourenco Marques and most went on to England
• Library and Archives Canada, Tadeusz Romer fonds, MG 31 D 68, reel C-10452, frame 625, via Canadiana Heritage — a Polish Embassy list of 41 Polish refugees, filed among Romer's Shanghai-period papers — page 1, entries 1-10 (Bajer, Bram a…
  On the Polish Embassy's list of 41 Polish refugees (Romer's Shanghai-period papers) (Romer fonds, reel C-10452, frame 625, entry 2): BRAM Salomon-Stefan, kupiec (merchant), born 1898; passport L:6/27/38, Katowice 4.I.38, do 8.12.43 — No visa. Wishes to go to the USA, where he has well-off family; failing that to England or British Empire territory, where he could work on the railways.