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.