Szapiro Mowsza
Visa no. 1476 · Kaunas, 7 August 1940
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… 5669, Wsochany, b.1911, Sokolka 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…320; 30; Olszany; 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. Open this entry in the full register →
Szapiro Mowsza 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.
The Sugihara Visa Archive · how this was compiled
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