Gotz Szymon

Gotz 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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 8167, Szymon Gote, born 1920 at Pecowka, who had come from Myslenice; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and Pecówka agrees with what the archive already holds.
• 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 1920 at 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…
  Entry 248 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 21, born at Pecowska Nowa Wies, a driver, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 14 February 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 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 — the ledger reads: 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.
• United States National Archives, RG 84, Classified Visa Files 1946-51, U.S. Consulate General Shanghai — the file unit “CURACAO VISAS” (NAID 12017241), declassified 2014, parts formerly SECRET. A 1949 investigation by the American consul…
  The consular data sheet on Salomon Schlosser (No. 876 on the register), made at Shanghai on 7 February 1949, names his wife Rachela, née Goatz, and her brother Simon Goatz, who had gone to the United States in August 1947. The register has Szymon Goetz on this line. The sheet says nothing of the brother's own journey, so this is a lead and not an identification.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 28 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 28 March 1946, lists Simon Goetz: born 1920 at Pecowska, a chauffeur, arrived in 1941 from Katowitz; the year and the town agree with the 1940 Vilna refugee list, the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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