Mojzesz Frydman

Mojzesz Frydman received transit visa no. 966 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 31.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

31

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Pesla (23)

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Pesla — wife, aged 23

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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 6617, Mojzesz Friedman, born 1903 at Zabnica, who came from Lwow; the year, 1903, is six years from the register's compiled age (31 in 1940), so the archive shows the entry as a lead, not as an identification.
• 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 1545, Mojsze Fridman, born 1924, who came from Pinsk; the year, 1924, is fifteen years later than the register's compiled age (31 in 1940) suggests, so the archive shows the entry as a lead, not as an identification.
• 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 71 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1909 at Lahiszyn; relatives abroad: an uncle, Harry Frydman, 3541 Chicago Street, Chicago, Illinois; A. Friedson-A. Gospin, 380 Hooper Street, Brooklyn, New York; Alex Goldstste, 510 Alabama Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
• 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 148 (also numbered 183) of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 32, born at Lahiszyn, a merchant, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 25 February 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 966)
• HaBoker, HaTzofe, Omer and Haaretz, 19 September 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Mojżesz Frydman and his wife Pesla reached Bombay on the way from Japan to Palestine. On 19 September 1941 the Tel Aviv papers HaBoker, HaTzofe and Omer printed a telegram from the committee of Polish-Jewish refugees listing 'these Polish refugees, immigrants to the Land of Israel', whose address at that time was Cook's office in Bombay; the name is on it. The archive attaches it because the list is one of the refugees on the Sugihara route, the name occurs once on the register, and the place and date fit (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• Haaretz, 2 February 1942, and HaTzofe, 3 February 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Mojżesz Frydman and his wife Pesla are on the list of immigrants on their way from India to the Land of Israel printed by Haaretz on 2 February 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• 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 Mojsze Frydman, a merchant born in 1909, of Warsaw, who was in Wilno during the war; his year and his trade agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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