Helena Mosewicka

Helena Mosewicka received transit visa no. 164 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. Aged 60 in 1940.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

60

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

mother of #434

The journey

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

What is known

A transit visa issued in Kaunas on 29 July 1940 for Helena Mosewicka, permitting travel through Japan toward Curacao and other Netherlands colonies. The document bears the seal of the Consulate of Japan at Kaunas and the Netherlands consular stamp.

Mosewicka Helena Transit Visa 29/7 1940 seen for the journey to Curacao and other Netherlands colonies through Japan Consul du Japon a Kaunas

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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 3883, Helena Masewicka, born 1880 at Warsaw, who had come from Warsaw; the year agrees with the register's age and Warsaw agrees with the archive's other records.
• 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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1880 at Warszawa.
• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 23, born at Warsaw.
• 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 2 Feb 1941 (line 164)
• Oral history interview with Anatol Morell (born Mosewicki) — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 11447. Catalogue: born Nov 24 1913, Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland); born Warsaw 24 Nov 1913; par… — the interviewee may be living
  USC Shoah Foundation VHA interview 11447: Anatol Morell (born Mosewicki) — his mother — gave a testimony (catalogue: born Nov 24 1913, Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)); born Warsaw 24 Nov 1913; parents Ekusiel and Helena Mosewicki; Bluman: No.434 Anatol Mosewicki, engineer, 27, wife Helena (22), son of No.164
• Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, New York: Object Description Report and master files supplied to this archive by the Collections department, 26 August 2026, in answer to its enquiry of 18 August. OBJECT 29…
  HELENA MOSEWICKA — the museum holds her own travel document. The Museum of Jewish Heritage's object 298.96 is her 'document in lieu of a passport', dated 20 November 1939, with her photograph, entries in Polish and French, and inside it the visas of her whole journey — Vilna, Kobe, Sosua in the Dominican Republic, and at last the United States — including a SUGIHARA VISA STAMP. It was given to the museum by WANDA GLASS, her daughter. Her husband EKUSIEL died in 1937; they had lived in Warsaw. She went to Vilna in 1940 with her daughter and son-in-law, where they learned of the visas to Japan.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Helena Mosewicka, 1941: born about 1880, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisc…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Helena Mosewicka, born about 1880 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1880, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• 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
  She left Yokohama on the Asama Maru, end of May 1941, from Yokohama (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "(Asama Maru) Mosewicka Helena, ″ Anatol, ″ Helena — Polish". (Asama Maru, Yokohama, end of May 1941.)
• The handwritten Sugihara transit visa of Helena Mosewicka (No. 164), Kaunas, 29 July 1940, 'for the journey to Surinam, Curaçao and other Netherland colonies through Japan'.
• MJH eMuseum object 298.96 (Gift of Wanda Glass): Document in lieu of a passport for Helena Mosewicka, full-resolution scan 1/3 (media 42812)
• Oral history interview with Anatol Morell (born Mosewicki) — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 11447. Catalogue: born Nov 24 1913, Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland); born Warsaw 24 Nov 1913; par… — the interviewee may be living
• Catalogue still for the oral history of Anatol Morell (born Mosewicki) — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 11447 (the archive's public catalogue frame, 352x240); links to the testimony at vha.usc.edu/testimony/11447
• HELENA MOSEWICKA's document in lieu of a passport — a Zaświadczenie/Certificat issued by the POLISH LEGATION IN KAUNAS on 20 November 1939, 'given for want of passport booklets, and authorising travel abroad'. It gives her born 1880 at W…

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