Mowsza Lejb Lwowicz

Mowsza Lejb Lwowicz received transit visa no. 1190 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbi - mir yeshiva, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

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 7561, Mowsza Lejba Lwowocz, born 1911, who had come from Mir; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 437 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 30, born at Ejszyszki, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 13 February 1941.
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  1911 Ejszyszki; Polish; cous. Lwowicz 534 Wansiclew Brooklyn
• 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 1190)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Mowsza Lejba Lwowicz, 1941: born about 1912, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Fran…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Mowsza Lejba Lwowicz, born about 1912 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1911, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco 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.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  He left Yokohama on the Tatuta Maru on 15 May 1941, bound for the USA (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: No. 109–111: "Lwowicz Mowsza, ″ Sara, ″ Abram". (Tatuta Maru, Yokohama, 15 May 1941.)

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