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.

uncle Max Szklar New York 3I4 e 3rd str. uncle Dow Aloni Tel-Aviv Bezalel Jaffe 5

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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 7480, Jakub Bobrowski, born 1911, who had come from Mir; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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…
  Entry 62 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 30, born at Kamieniec, a yeshiva student, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 2 February 1941.
• 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
• 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)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Jakub Bobrowski, 1941: born about 1911, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Jakub Bobrowski, born about 1911 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1912, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• Memorial Book of Kamenets (the Kamieniec Litewski yizkor book), English translation on JewishGen, pp. 281–282
  The memorial book of Kamenets, published by the town's survivors, lists Rabbi Yaakov Bobrowski, living in the United States, among the mourners for his parents, Tama and Avraham Bobrowski, and later for his brother Meir, who died in 1968. Kamenets is the birthplace the Kobe Jewish community recorded for Jakob Bobrowski, the Mir yeshiva man who reached the United States in 1941; the town, the calling and the country agree with the register's line. The book also prints his own recollections of the town.
• 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 Jakob Bobrowski, born in 1911, of Kamieniec, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and the town agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)

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