Szapiro Mowsza

Szapiro Mowsza received transit visa no. 1476 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records locksmith, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Locksmith

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; 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 5669, Mowsza Szapiro, born 1911 at Uściany, who had come from Sokółka; the year agrees with the register's 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…
  Entry 320 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 30, born at Olszany, a locksmith.
• S.S. Fusimi Maru, Kobe to Bombay, en route to Palestine, 19 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 s…
  Listed as "SZAPIRO Mowsza" among the refugee passengers who left Kobe to Bombay on the Fusimi Maru. The compiled register independently records this line as bound for Palestine — which is where this ship was going. The two agree without being derived from one another.
• 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 Fusimi Maru on 21 May 1941, bound for Bombay on the way to Palestine (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Szapiro Mowsza". (Fusimi Maru, Kobe, 21 May 1941.)

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