Bram Salomon-Stefan

Bram Salomon-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…
  Entry 23 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1898 at Zarki, Polish; relatives abroad: cousins, Pinkus, 104 Crescent Heights Boulevard, Los Angeles, and Woolf, 8 B Morgan Street, Bow, London E3.
• 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 — the ledger reads: 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… — cited by link only (Canadiana Heritage); frame image not republished
  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.
• 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 him as Salomon Stefan Brand, aged 43, born at Zarki, an engineer; the other lists spell the name Bram. Sugihara's ledger lost the first letters of his given names; the register has them in full.
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Stefan Bram, aged 42, of Katowice, who was in Wilno during the war; his age and his town agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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