Simcho-Ziskind Lwowicz

Simcho-Ziskind Lwowicz received transit visa no. 1188 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbi - mir yeshiva, aged 30.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

30

Occupation

Rabbi - Mir Yeshiva

The journey

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

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 7562, Symcha Zyskind Lwowocz, born 1910, who had come from Mir; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 178 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1910 at Ejszyszki; relatives abroad: a cousin, Rubin Lwowicz, van Siclen Avenue, Brooklyn.
• 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 439 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 31, who arrived in Japan on 24 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 1188)
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Simcha-Zyskind Lwowicz, 1941: born about 1910, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Simcha-Zyskind Lwowicz, born about 1910 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1910, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS Hie Maru, sailing from Yokohama (date not legible), arrived Seattle 29 Mar 1941 (US National Archives, M1383, roll 260; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  The National Archives' passenger list of the Hie Maru (FamilySearch's copy) records Rabbi Simcha-Zyskind Lwowicz, 31, born in Eišiškės and last living in Kaunas, sailing from Yokohama in March 1941 on a US transit visa issued in Moscow, with Rywka Lwowicz, 67, bound for a cousin in Brooklyn. He named his wife, still in Kaunas, as his nearest relative.
• The HIE, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Jacob Wajsbord — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arrivin…
• The HIE, arriving at Seattle in 1941: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Jacob Wajsbord — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passen…

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