Surawicz Mordka
Visa no. 1312 · Kaunas, 6 August 1940
Surawicz Mordka received transit visa no. 1312 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 46.
What the register records
- Nationality as recorded
- Polnisch
- Age in 1940
- 46
- Occupation
- Manufacturer
- Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
- wife Rejzla (41), son Liowa (21)
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Australia.
Travelled with, and never given a number
- Rejzla — wife, aged 41
- Liowa — son, aged 21
The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.
Where this comes from
- 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 620 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 47, born at Sokoly, a manufacturer, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 13 February 1941. - Find a Grave memorial 244681926: Liowa Leon Surawicz, Melbourne Chevra Kadisha cemetery, Springvale, plot 18 BB 8 (a cemetery-register entry; the cemetery allows no photographs)
Mordka Surawicz, his wife Rejzla and their son Liowa reached Australia, as the register's line intended, and settled in Melbourne. The son, Liowa (Leon) Surawicz, born in 1919 — the age the register gives him — died there on 31 August 1989, aged 70, and is buried in the Chevra Kadisha cemetery at Springvale. - The Australian Jewish News (Melbourne), 21 January 1955, p. 13, Family Notices: condolence on the death of Max Surawicz (Trove, National Library of Australia)
Mordka Surawicz died in Melbourne in January 1955. The Australian Jewish News of 21 January 1955 carries a condolence notice to Mrs Rose Surawicz and Leon on the death of their husband and father, Max Surawicz; the Fawkner cemetery memorial that gives him an interment on 12 January 1955 is the same man. The register's line is Mordka Surawicz travelling with his wife Rejzla and their son Liowa, bound for Australia: Max, Rose and Leon are the names they used there, and the son's own grave in Melbourne is already on this page. (The Australian Jewish News, 21 January 1955, page 13, read on Trove; credit: Trove, National Library of Australia.)
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