Miedzygorski Moszek

Miedzygorski Moszek received transit visa no. 1663 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records textile merchant, aged 42.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

42

Occupation

Textile Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Necha (42), child Sura (12)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Necha — wife, aged 42
• Sura — child, aged 12

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

Where this comes from

• 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 306 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 43, born at Ksiaz Wielki, a merchant, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 2 February 1941.
• US arrival manifest: Moszek Miedzygorski, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Moszek Miedzygorski, 1941. Ship: Hie Maru. Matched from the Hie Maru's Polish-born passenger list (87 people). Register No.1663 'Miedzygorski Moszek' records age 42; the manifest gives born 1899, 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 2 Feb 1941 (line 1663)
• M.S. Hie Maru, Kobe 4 May – Yokohama 7 May – Seattle 18 May 1941, sheet 2 of 11 — transcribed for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild by David Rosen
  Hie Maru passenger no. 35; 42y 7m; Wholesale Textile Merchant; b. Ksiaza, Poland; last residence Danzig, Poland; US visa Q.I.V.6271, issued Yokohama, 4-23-1941; to Wash., D.C.; joining Uncle, Hary Friedling, 5205 2nd St. N.W. Wash. D.C.; nearest relative left behind: No relative, 17 Jopengasse, Danzig
• M.S. Hie Maru, Kobe 4 May – Yokohama 7 May – Seattle 18 May 1941, sheet 2 of 11 — transcribed for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild by David Rosen
  Hie Maru passenger no. 36; Housewife; b. Biala, Poland; last residence Danzig, Poland; US visa Q.I.V.6272, issued Yokohama, 4-23-1941; to Wash., D.C.; joining Uncle-in-law, Hary Friedling, 5205 2nd St. N.W. Wash. D.C.; nearest relative left behind: No relative, 17 Jopengasse, Danzig; wife of No. 1663; not separately on the register
• M.S. Hie Maru, Kobe 4 May – Yokohama 7 May – Seattle 18 May 1941, sheet 2 of 11 — transcribed for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild by David Rosen
  Hie Maru passenger no. 37; Student; b. Ujazd, Poland; last residence Danzig, Poland; US visa Q.I.V.6273, issued Yokohama, 4-23-1941; to Wash., D.C.; joining Granduncle, Hary Friedling, 5205 2nd St. N.W. Wash. D.C.; nearest relative left behind: No relative, 17 Jopengasse, Danzig; daughter of No. 1663; not separately on the register
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Moszek Miedzygorski, 1941: born about 1899, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Moszek Miedzygorski, born about 1899 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1898, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle 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
  He left Yokohama on the Hie Maru on 7 May 1941, bound for the USA (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: No. 42–44: "Miedzygorski Moszek, ″ Necha [reads Rocha], ″ Sura". (Hie Maru, Yokohama, 7 May 1941.)
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Moszek Miedzygorski, born in 1898, of Danzig, who was in Wilno during the war; the year, the city and his wife's card agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• A ship, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Samuel Siev — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at…
• Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Siew Samuel (Dr.) — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew L…

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