Gerszon Frankensztejn

Gerszon Frankensztejn received transit visa no. 978 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 40.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

40

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for 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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 1563, Gerszon Frankielsztejn, born 1900 at Brzezina, who came from Brzeżyn; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and the town with what the archive already holds for this line.
• 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 69 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1900 at Brzeziny; relatives abroad: a brother, M. Frankenstein, 10 Hebron Street, Tel Aviv; an uncle, A. Kujawski, 1416 Steebin Avenue, Bronx, New York; a cousin, S. Frankenstein, 7 Hauland Street, Roxbury, Massachusetts.
• 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 147 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 41, born at Brzeziny, a merchant, who arrived in Japan 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 978)

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