Dawid Szyja Mordka Mendzylewski

Dawid Szyja Mordka Mendzylewski received transit visa no. 176 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records tailor, aged 37.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

37

Occupation

Tailor

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Burma.

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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: born at Radzymin.
• George Bluman, letter to the archive of 1 September 2026 — Nos. 176 and 1951 are one man
  The compiler of the Chiune Sugihara Lists, George Bluman, confirmed on 1 September 2026 that this line and No. 1951 record the same man: a tailor of 37 from Radzymin, entered twice, three weeks and twenty-five folios apart. Both lines stay; each now points to the other. The archive's one Kobe-register record for him is attached to No. 1951.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  He left Kobe on the Taiyo Maru on 18 July 1941, bound for Burma (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Mandzylewski Dawid". (Taiyo Maru, Kobe, 18 July 1941, destination Burma.)
• 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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad has Dawid Mordka Szyja Mendzylewski, born in 1903 at Radzymin. Sugihara's list carries this man twice, here and at No. 1951; George Bluman, the compiler of the lists, confirmed on 1 September 2026 that the two lines record one man, a tailor of 37 from Radzymin, and the record is shown on both.

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