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…
  5666, Lodz, b.1909, Wloclawek
• 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.598, age 32, b. Lodz, teacher, from Vilno, left for S.Francisco 18.2.41
• 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)