Jakob Bobrowski

Jakob Bobrowski received transit visa no. 959 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records mir yeshiva, aged 28.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

28

Occupation

Mir Yeshiva

The journey

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

What is known

Jakob Bobrowski, born 1911 in Kamieniec Litewski, listed two relatives: an uncle Max Szklar in New York and an uncle Dow Aloni in Tel Aviv, indicating family dispersed between the United States and 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…
  7480; 1911; Mir
• 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…
  #62, 30, b. Kamieniec, yeshiva, arr 2.2, from Kovno
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  13 1911 Kamieniec Lit.; uncle Max Szklar New York 314 e 3rd str; uncle Dow Aloni Tel-Aviv Bezale Jaffe 5
• hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Jakub Bobrowski, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Jakub Bobrowski, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.959 'Jakob Bobrowski' records age 28; the manifest gives born 1911, arriving 1941. Co
• 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 2 Feb 1941 (line 959)