Szczekocki Jakob Jozef

Szczekocki Jakob Jozef received transit visa no. 1020 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 26.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

26

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 8402, Jakob Josef Szczekocki, born 1914 at Sosnowiec, who had come from Katowice; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and Sosnowiec agrees with what the archive already holds.
• 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 252 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1914 at Sosnowiec; relatives abroad: an uncle, Morriss Chicefsky, Forth Worth, Texas; a cousin, H. Green, Cleveland.
• 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 639 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register (also numbered 402): aged 27, born at Sosnowiec, 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 1020)
• HaBoker, 7 May 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  In Kobe he was counted among the General Zionists: a letter sent from Kobe on 10 March 1941 and printed in HaBoker of Tel Aviv on 7 May 1941 names 'Yosef Szczekocki (Katowice)' among the members of the movement who had come to Japan from Soviet Lithuania (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• Haaretz, 23 June 1942, and HaBoker, 25 June 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: in June 1942 letters for 'Yaakov Yosef Szczekocki' were waiting at the Jewish Agency's immigration office in Tel Aviv, according to notices in Haaretz (23 June 1942) and HaBoker (25 June 1942) (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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