Horowitz Mojsze

Horowitz Mojsze received transit visa no. 1678 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records technician, aged 35.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

35

Occupation

Technician

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Chaja Ajdla (40), children (Bejla (3), Rojza Dina {2))

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Chaja Ajdla — wife, aged 40

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

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — 'List of Polish war refugees in China', 242 names: the Polish (Sugihara-stream) group in wartime Shanghai, among them Gedalia Zupnik of the Mir, Chaim Ba…
  USHMM 'List of Polish war refugees in China' (242 names); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026
• 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 1316); found on reading the ledger page — approved by the owner's review, 23 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Horowitz Mojzesz, technician, born 3 November 1905 Krakow, married — wife CHAJA-AJDLA born 21 April 1900 Dabrowa; 921/2 Avenue Joffre; Tokyo-issued passport of 9 August 1941 (Ser. II 004175) — found on reading the page; the register also has 'Mojsze-Mejer Horowitz' (No.458), so the attribution is tentative.