Jeszua-Henoch Bram

Visa no. 954 · Kaunas, 3 August 1940

Jeszua-Henoch Bram received transit visa no. 954 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 36.

What the register records

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

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 325, Jeszue-Henoch Bram, born 1905 at Krośniewice, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
S.S. Manila Maru, Kobe to South Africa, 29 May 1941 — list of refugee passengers, HICEM meeting half the cost of the passages. JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00053, item 00766. One sheet carries four sailings; this is…
Listed as "BRAM Jeszua" among the refugee passengers who left Kobe to South Africa on the Manila Maru. The compiled register gives Palestine for this line, which is not where this sailing was bound. The identification rests on the name alone and is offered as a possibility, not a finding.
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… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
He left Kobe on the Manila Maru on 29 May 1941, bound for South Africa (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Bram Jeszua Henoch — Polish — Kobe — S. Africa". (Manila Maru, Kobe, 29 May 1941.)