Klinger Moszek

Klinger Moszek received transit visa no. 1568 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 9 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 25.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

25

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #1415

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  Entry 140 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1914 at Stawiszyn; relatives abroad: a brother, Dr John Klinger, Camden, New York; an uncle, A. Lewenberg, West Carmel, Haifa.
• 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…
  Entry 247 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 27, born at Stawiszyn, a clerk, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 25 February 1941.
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1408) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Klinger Moszek, office clerk, born 18 July 1914 Stawiszyn, single; 805/19 East Seward Road, with his brother Izrael Fajwel (entry 1410, b. 25 Jan 1919); Tokyo-issued passport of 2 December 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 25 Feb 1941 (line 1568)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Moszek Klinger, 1948: born about 1914, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco)…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Moszek Klinger, born about 1914 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1948. The register's compiled line gives 1914. A lead only: the register carries 2 lines of this name, and the index entry cannot be assigned to one of them without the manifest sheet.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 31 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 31 March 1946, lists Moschek Klinger: born 1914 at Stawiszyn, an employee, arrived in 1941 from Kaunas; the year, the town and the trade agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Mojsze Klinger, born in 1914, of Gdynia, who was in Wilno during the war, and beside it a card for Izrael Klinger, born in 1919, also of Gdynia; the year and his brother agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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