Gerszon Frankensztejn

Visa no. 978 · Kaunas, 3 August 1940

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

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

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…
1563, Brzezina, b.1900, from Brzezyn
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.69, 1900 Brzeziny; brother M.Frankenstein 10 Hebron Str Tel Aviv, uncle A.Kujawski 1416 Steebin Ave Bronx NY, cousin S.Frankenstein 7 Hauland Str Roxbury Mass
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…
147, 41, Brzeziny, merchant, arr 25.2
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)