Tchornicki Wolf

Tchornicki Wolf received transit visa no. 1237 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records student, aged 19.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

19

Occupation

Student

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Mexico.

Where this comes from

• 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 274 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1921, Polish; relatives abroad: a brother and sister, Jose and Mary Tjornicki, Tribuna Izraelia, Apartado Postal 351, Mexico.
• 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 681 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 20, born at Ostrina, a student, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius 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 24 Feb 1941 (line 1237)
• "California, Los Angeles, Passenger Lists, 1907-1948", FamilySearch — index entry for Wolf Vel Willi Tohornicki, 1941: born about 1923, Ostiyma, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1764 (passenger lists of vessels arriving…
  FamilySearch's index of the Los Angeles passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Wolf Vel Willi Tohornicki, born about 1923 in Ostiyma, Poland, arriving at Los Angeles in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1921, and the two are 2 years apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Los Angeles 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 Rakuyo Maru on 31 May 1941, bound for Mexico (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Tchornicky Wolf — Polish — Yokohama — Mexico". (Rakuyo Maru, Yokohama, 31 May 1941.)
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Wolf Tchornicki, born in 1921, of Warsaw, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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