Dawidowicz Zacharias

Dawidowicz Zacharias received transit visa no. 1764 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. The register records student, aged 17.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

17

Occupation

Student

The journey

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

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…
  #109/114, age 19, b. Makow
• 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 1370); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Dawidowicz Zacharia, student, born 3 November 1922 Makow; 352 Ward Road; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (D-55, 4 December 1941).
• 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 2 Feb 1941 (line 1764)