Gontwil Ludwik

Gontwil Ludwik received transit visa no. 1700 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• Forverts (New York), 17 April 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Ludwik Honigwill, one of the best-known defence lawyers in the political trials of interwar Poland, reached New York in April 1941 with a group of Jewish political refugees who had come from Vilna across Siberia and Japan, rescued by the Jewish Labor Committee (Forverts, New York, 17 April 1941; National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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