Mowszowski Lejzer (Leizer)

Mowszowski Lejzer (Leizer) received transit visa no. 1016 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. Aged 42 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

42

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Feyga (37), daughters (Belia (13), Guta(14))

The journey

Registered in Kobe for South Africa.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Feyga — wife, aged 37

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…
  3952, Biaiystok, 1898, from Biaiytsok
• Melbourne Holocaust Museum — Everybody Had a Name exhibition (Mowszowski family Sugihara visa)