Miedzinski Chaim

Miedzinski Chaim received transit visa no. 1536 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 8 August 1940. The register records tricot, aged 20.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

20

Occupation

Tricot

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for South Africa.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  Named on the passenger list of the Manila Maru, which sailed from Kobe for South Africa on 29 May 1941. A sailing list rather than an arrival record: it shows the journey begun, not finished.
• 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: "Miedzinski Chaim Moszek". (Manila Maru, Kobe, 29 May 1941.)

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