Henryk Muszkat

Henryk Muszkat received transit visa no. 1626 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 28.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

28

Occupation

Lawyer

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…
  3762, 1911
• 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…
  183; 1912 Warszawa; brother-Zela 24 Tel Aviv Ludwik Muszkat
• 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…
  No 488, 30, Warsaw, Lawyer, 3.2
• hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Henryk Muszkat, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Henryk Muszkat, 1941. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.1626 'Henryk Muszkat' records age 28; the manifest gives born 1911, 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 3 Feb 1941 (line 1626)