Dawidowicz Simon

Dawidowicz Simon received transit visa no. 1705 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records newspapers, aged 44.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

44

Occupation

Newspapers

The journey

Reached Japan; 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 1051, Szymon Dawidowicz, born 1895 at Mława, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Szymon Mordka Dawidowicz, 1941: born about 1896, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Szymon Mordka Dawidowicz, born about 1896 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1896, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco 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.
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS Kamakura Maru, sailing from Yokohama March 27th 1941, arrived San Francisco April 10th 1941 (US National Archives, M1410, film 369; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  He reached San Francisco on 10 April 1941 on the Kamakura Maru from Yokohama, the manager of a newspaper office, on an American visitor's visa issued at Moscow, going to his brother-in-law H. Schiff in New York, according to the passenger list held by the National Archives (FamilySearch's copy).
• Forverts (New York), 17 April 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Szymon Dawidowicz, a printing worker and labour activist from Poland, was among the Jewish political refugees whose arrival in New York, by way of Siberia and Japan with the help of the Jewish Labor Committee, the Forverts reported on 17 April 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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