Sznol Judka

Sznol Judka received transit visa no. 1567 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 9 August 1940. The register records student, aged 24.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

24

Occupation

Student

The journey

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

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…
  6582, b.1916 Krubieszpw, from Hrubieszow
• 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…
  #654, age 25, b. Hrubieszow, student
• hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Judka Sznol, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Judka Sznol, 1941. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.1567 'znol Judka' records age 24; the manifest gives born 1916, arriving 1941.
• 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 1567)