Kamenszajn Mowsze

Kamenszajn Mowsze received transit visa no. 1729 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. The register records journalist, aged 63.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

63

Occupation

Journalist

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  Entry 128 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1877 at Ostrog, Polish; relatives abroad: a cousin, J. Miller, 218 S Walash R90, Chicago.
• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 64, born at Ostrow, a journalist, who travelled from Vilnius.
• 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 1729)
• National Archives and Records Administration, Alien Case Files (Record Group 566), catalog descriptions read through the NARA Catalog API
  The National Archives holds an alien case file for Mojsze Kamenszajn (catalogued as Kamenszanj), born 2 October 1877 in Poland, who entered the United States at San Francisco on 10 April 1941 (file 7545445, NARA catalog NAID 40376222). The name and the birth year agree with the register's line, and the port and date of entry are the route's.

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