Warszawski Icek

Warszawski Icek received transit visa no. 1564 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 9 August 1940. The register records engineer, aged 32.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

32

Occupation

Engineer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Szejndla (28)

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Chile.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Szejndla — wife, aged 28

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

• 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 1564)
• "California, Los Angeles, Passenger Lists, 1907-1948", FamilySearch — index entry for Joek Warszawski, 1941: born about 1909, Opole, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1764 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at Los Ange…
  FamilySearch's index of the Los Angeles passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Joek Warszawski, born about 1909 in Opole, Poland, arriving at Los Angeles in 1941. The surname is the register's and rare on it, and the given name is close but not the same; a lead, not an identification.
• "California, Los Angeles, Passenger Lists, 1907-1948", FamilySearch — index entry for Icek Vel Jack Warszawski, 1941: born about 1912, Jadow, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1764 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at…
  FamilySearch's index of the Los Angeles passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Icek Vel Jack Warszawski, born about 1912 in Jadow, Poland, arriving at Los Angeles in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1911. A lead only: the register carries 3 lines of this name, and the index entry cannot be assigned to one of them without the manifest sheet.
• 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 Yokohama on the Rakuyo Maru on 31 May 1941, bound for Mexico (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: No. 251–253: "Warszawski Icek Majer, ″ Szejndla, ″ Icek — Mexico". (Rakuyo Maru, Yokohama, 31 May 1941.)

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