Lidski Mowsza

Lidski Mowsza received transit visa no. 1510 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - slonimer yeshiva, aged 27.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

27

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Slonimer Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Malka (16)

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Malka — wife, aged 16

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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…
  7956, Slonim, b.1911, Slonim
• The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…
  No.105, age 30, b. Slonin, Yeshiva, arr. 25.1. from Vilno
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  1911 Slonim; Polish; uncl. I. Konwisser Chikago 3657 W Roosevelt Road
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 25 Jan 1941 (line 1510)