Sawicki Aron

Sawicki Aron received transit visa no. 1305 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records teacher, aged 31.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

31

Occupation

Teacher

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #1304

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 5666, Aron Sawicki, born 1909 at Łódź, who had come from Włocławek; the year agrees with the register's age and Łódź agrees with the archive's other records.
• 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 598 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 32, born at Lodz, a teacher, who travelled from Vilnius; left for San Francisco on 18 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 1305)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Aron Sawicki, 1941: born about 1910, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco).…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Aron Sawicki, born about 1910 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1909, 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.
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS Asama Maru, sailing from Kobe, February 18, 1941, arrived San Francisco date not read (a note on the sheet reads "Adm. ... March 7, 1941") (US National Archives, M1410, film 368; read on FamilySearch's co…
  The National Archives' San Francisco passenger list (FamilySearch's copy) shows Aron Sawicki, a teacher born in Łódź, sailing from Kobe on the Asama Maru on 18 February 1941 with his wife Ita, on an American visitor's visa issued in Moscow, to join his uncle in Brooklyn.

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