Abramowicz Samuel

Abramowicz Samuel received transit visa no. 1377 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. Aged 22 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

22

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #1376

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

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 6996, Samuel Abramowicz, born 1919 at Oswiecim, who had come from Chorzow; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and Oświęcim agrees with what the archive already holds.
• 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, in a line beginning with the figure 22: born at Oswiecim; relatives abroad: an aunt, Mina Feldman, 3 Belmont Avenue, Winchendon, Massachusetts; a cousin, Fima Eichner, Washington, D.C.
• S.S. Manila Maru, Kobe to South Africa, 29 May 1941 — list of refugee passengers, HICEM meeting half the cost of the passages. JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00053, item 00766. One sheet carries four sailings; this is…
  Listed as "ABRAMOWICZ Samuel" among the refugee passengers who left Kobe to South Africa on the Manila Maru. The compiled register gives Palestine for this line, which is not where this sailing was bound. The identification rests on the name alone and is offered as a possibility, not a finding.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  He left Kobe on the Manila Maru on 29 May 1941, bound for South Africa (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Abramowicz Samuel". (Manila Maru, Kobe, 29 May 1941.)

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