Jakob Gilmowicz

Jakob Gilmowicz received transit visa no. 1194 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 24.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

24

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

The journey

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

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…
  1892; b.Miv 1915; from Miv
• 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…
  90, 26, Mir, yeshiva; brother A.Gilmowicz c/o B.Shvarzbart Hadar Hacarmel Hacharmon Haifa, uncle B.Bergman 110 North Bank str New London Conn