Mowszowicz Dawid Girsz

Mowszowicz Dawid Girsz received transit visa no. 1109 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 19.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

19

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

son of #659

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: MOWSZOWICZ Dawid
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 86: MOWSZOWICZ Dawid, file no. 9832. Match: register No.1109 'Mowszowicz Dawid Girsz', and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree. NOTE: the index
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — 'List of Polish war refugees in China', 242 names: the Polish (Sugihara-stream) group in wartime Shanghai, among them Gedalia Zupnik of the Mir, Chaim Ba…
  USHMM 'List of Polish war refugees in China' (242 names) — the Polish Sugihara-stream group in wartime Shanghai
• JDC Archives, New York — Shanghai Migration Files, box index (AR 33/44, file 00014): the alphabetical index to the JDC's Shanghai emigration case files, 1946-1950 — some 2,640 case files covering about 5,400 persons, each family under on…
  JDC Shanghai Migration Files, case file no. 9832 — an emigration case file opened for the family in Shanghai after the war; the file itself can be requested from the JDC Archives