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.

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…
  No 306, 43, Ksiaz W., merchant, 2.2, Vilno
• hunt/familysearch: 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
  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