Gorwitz Norbert Henryk

Gorwitz Norbert Henryk received transit visa no. 1282 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records student, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Student

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.

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…
  1911 Warszawa; Polish; uncle Sam Horvitz 1791 Grand Cuccaucausse, Bronx N.Y.
• 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…
  No 241; age 30; born Warsaw; Student; arr 13.2.41; from Vilno
• hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Norbert Henryk Gorwic, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Norbert Henryk Gorwic, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.1282 'Gorwic Norbert Henryk' records age 29; the manifest gives born 1911, arri
• M/S Heian Maru manifest, sheet 21 — List or Manifest of Alien Passengers, sailed Yokohama 27 May 1941, arrived Seattle 7 June 1941, all thirty admitted (NARA M1383, roll 262, Seattle Passenger Lists; retrieved with the owner signed in).…
  M/S Heian Maru, Yokohama 27 May - Seattle 7 June 1941; line 9: 30, student, b. Warsaw
• 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 1282)