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…
  3617, b.1903 Zabniea, from Lwow
• 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…
  No.71, 1909 Lahiszyn; uncle Harry Frydman 3541 Chicago str Chicago Ill, A.Friedson-A.Gospin 380 Hooper Str Brooklyn NY, Alex Goldstste 510 Alabama Ave Brooklyn NY
• 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…
  148/183, 32, Lahiszyn, Merchant, arr 25.2, from Kovno
• 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)