Abraham Rozenbaum

Abraham Rozenbaum received transit visa no. 970 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records teacher, aged 44.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

44

Occupation

Teacher

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #971, child Pola (9)

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Pola — child, aged 9

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 4617, Abram Rozenbaum, born 1895 at Trzebinia, who had come from Kraków; the year agrees with the register's age and Trzebinia agrees with the archive's other records.
• 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 226 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1895 at Trzebinia; relatives abroad: an aunt, G. Brandt, Hotel Beacon, Broadway, 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 561 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 46, born at Trzebinia, a manufacturer, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius 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 970)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Abraham Rozenbaum, 1947: born about 1896, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francis…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Abraham Rozenbaum, born about 1896 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1895, and the two are 1 year apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1947 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 392, image 717, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, Mizrachi members list and the United Board of Rabbis' birth-data pages, Shanghai 1945–46 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  A list of the members of the Mizrachi Organization of Polish War Refugees in Shanghai, dated 20 December 1945 and kept in the records of UNRRA's China Office, gives his birth as 20 March 1895 in Trzebinia, and his Polish passport as No. R-86/1/24/41, issued in Shanghai on 6 December 1941. He is listed with his wife Estera and their daughter Pola. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• National Archives and Records Administration, Alien Case Files (Record Group 566), catalog descriptions read through the NARA Catalog API
  The National Archives holds an alien case file for Abraham Rosenbaum (also written Rozenbaum), born 20 August 1895 in Poland, who entered the United States at San Francisco on 25 August 1947 (file 6754919, NARA catalog NAID 40372890). The name and the birth year agree with the register's line, and the port and date of entry are the route's.

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