Ickowicz Abram Jakob

Ickowicz Abram Jakob received transit visa no. 1034 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 35.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

35

Occupation

Manufacturer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #1035

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; 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 2436, Abram-Jakub Ickowicz, born 1905 at Częstochowa, who came from Jędrzejów; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and his wife Estera, also on the register (No. 1035), follows him on the list.
• 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 121 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 36, born at Czestochowa, a manufacturer; relatives abroad: brothers-in-law, B. Markovitz, 7799 East 51st Street, Brooklyn, New York, and I. Markowitz, 1939 Pitkin Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
• Haaretz, 2 February 1942, and HaTzofe, 3 February 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  In February 1942 Abram Ickowicz, with his wife and four children, was on the way from India to the Land of Israel: Haaretz (2 February) and HaTzofe (3 February 1942) printed the list of immigrants then on that road (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press). The compilers' note on this line records only his wife
• Arolsen Archives, Bad Arolsen, collection 6.3.3.3 (tracing service case files): the 1972 tracing file of Abraham Jacob Ickowicz, document 83104235 (his pages 83104244–83104246)
  A tracing file opened by the International Tracing Service in 1972 records Abraham Jacob Ickowicz, an industrialist born at Częstochowa on 13 July 1905, and his wife Esther, born Mordkowicz: in 1939 they fled from Jędrzejów to Wilno, went from there across Russia and by sea to Japan, then by way of Shanghai, Calcutta and Bombay, and in 1942 by the ship Rizwani to Cairo. The file, compiled in 1972, records that he had died by then; it gives no date or place. Tracing file, held by the Arolsen Archives, Bad Arolsen (ITS Digital Archive).
• Arolsen Archives, Bad Arolsen, collection 6.3.3.3 (tracing service case files): the 1972 tracing file of Abraham Jacob Ickowicz, document 83104235 (his pages 83104244–83104246)

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