Goldszmidt Moszek
Visa no. 1473 · Kaunas, 7 August 1940
Goldszmidt 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… 1605, Polaniec, b.1917, from Polaniec 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…97, 24, Polaniec, Baker; uncle I.Kramer 1833 Prospect Place Brooklyn NY 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.
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Goldszmidt Moszek is one of 2,140 people recorded in the surviving register of the transit
visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
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