Goetz Szymon

Goetz Szymon received transit visa no. 1648 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records driver, aged 20.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

20

Occupation

Driver

The journey

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

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…
  8167, Pecowka, 1920
• 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…
  1920 Pecowska Nowa Wies; Polish
• 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 248; age 21; born Pecowska Nowa Wies; Driver; arr 14.2; from Vilno
• 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 14 Feb 1941 (line 1648)
• 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 1389) — found on reading the ledger page itself — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Gotz (Goetz) Szymon, DRIVER (szofer), born 7 January 1920 Pecowska Nowa Wies; 921/402 Avenue Joffre; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (G-116, 4 December 1941) — found on reading the page.