Lewi Josef

Lewi Josef received transit visa no. 1613 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 12 August 1940. The register records worker, aged 22.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

22

Occupation

Worker

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• Mark Halpern correspondence (9 Aug 2026): Netherlands Legation certificate, Tokyo, 18 March 1941 — Minister J.C. Pabst certifies that 74 named persons of Polish nationality "do not need a Netherlands visa in order to proceed to the Nethe…
  Pabst certificate #60; register line 'Lewi Esef' (12 Aug 1940), repaired 'Lewi Josef'
• S.S. Fusimi Maru, Kobe to Bombay, en route to Palestine, 19 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 s…
  Listed as "LEWI Josek" among the refugee passengers who left Kobe to Bombay on the Fusimi Maru. The compiled register independently records this line as bound for Palestine — which is where this ship was going. The two agree without being derived from one another.
• The list of seventy-four — Netherlands Legation, Tokyo, 18 March 1941. On the Legation's letterhead (Gezantschap der Nederlanden), certifying 'that the undermentioned persons all of Polish nationality do not need a Netherlands visa in or…
  Named at position 60 of seventy-four on the Netherlands Legation's certificate of 18 March 1941 — the list of the people who reached Tsuruga on Sugihara's transit visas without a Curaçao endorsement, were refused permission to land, and whose ship was turned back towards Vladivostok. The Legation typed the name as "Lewi Josef Chaim". A pencilled note beside it gives this register number, which is how the two records are joined.