Jeszua-henoch Bram

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

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

36

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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…
  325, Krosnieviice, b.1905
• 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.