Goldszmid Moszek

Goldszmid Moszek received transit visa no. 1473 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records baker, aged 23.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

23

Occupation

Baker

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 1605, Moszek Goldszmid, born 1917 at Połaniec, who came from Połaniec; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and the town with what the archive already holds for this line.
• 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…
  Entry 97 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 24, born at Polaniec, a baker; relatives abroad: an uncle, I. Kramer, 1833 Prospect Place, Brooklyn, New York.
• 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 "GOLDSZMIDT Moszek" 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: "Goldszmid Moszek". (Manila Maru, Kobe, 29 May 1941.)
• Geneteka (Polish Genealogical Society) — the Jewish birth registers of Staszów and Połaniec, indexed from the synagogue books
  A possible record, not yet confirmed: the Jewish birth register of Połaniec, indexed in Geneteka by the Polish Genealogical Society, has two boys named Moszek Goldszmit, born in 1917 and in 1919. The refugee lists give Połaniec as his birthplace and an age that puts his birth in 1917, which fits the first; but with two entries of the name the record is shown as a lead until the book itself is read. Read in Geneteka's index, October 2026.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 28 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 28 March 1946, lists Moszek Goldszmid: born 1917 at Poland, a baker, arrived in 1941 from Vilnius; the year and the town agree with the 1940 Vilna refugee list, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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