Winiacki Mark

Visa no. 1311 · Kaunas, 6 August 1940

Winiacki Mark received transit visa no. 1311 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records student, aged 25.

What the register records

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.

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 8242, Mark Winiacki, born 1915 at Kozlow, who had come from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
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…
The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: the line refers to page 12 for relatives.
Manifest of alien passengers, SS President Pierce, sailing from Kobe 14 March 1941, arrived San Francisco 29 March 1941 (US National Archives, M1410, film 368; read on FamilySearch's copy)
He landed at San Francisco on 29 March 1941 from the President Pierce out of Kobe, coming as an immigrant on a quota visa issued at Yokohama on 12 March 1941; the manifest names his parents in Lida and a cousin in New York as the person he was joining (manifest held by the US National Archives, read on FamilySearch's copy).