Aleksandrowicz Ignacy

Aleksandrowicz Ignacy received transit visa no. 1863 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 49.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

49

Occupation

Lawyer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #1862

The journey

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

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: aged 50, born at Krakow, a lawyer, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 13 February 1941; left for the USA on 28 February 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 1863)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Ignacy Isaac Aleksandeowicz, 1941: born about 1892, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at S…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Ignacy Isaac Aleksandeowicz, born about 1892 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1891, and the two are 1 year apart. 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.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Ignacy Isaac Aleksandeowicz, 1941: born about 1892, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at S…
  The Tatuta Maru sailed from Yokohama on 6 March 1941, took shore leave at Honolulu on the 14th and landed at San Francisco on 20 March 1941; its manifest has Ignacy Isaac Aleksandrowicz, aged 49, married, a lawyer, reading French, German, English and Polish, born at Kraków, last residence Kraków, on an American transit visa, No. 118, issued at Moscow on 29 January 1941, on the line above his brother Maksymilian; a later note in the margin records a change of status in March 1942. The register gives his age as 49. (The sheet is in the National Archives' passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco, microfilm M1410; the archive read FamilySearch's copy.)
• Leads — the Yiddish press of New York and Latin America, 1945–1975 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: in June 1964 the Bund in Tel Aviv honoured the memory of a Dr Ignacy Aleksandrowicz who had died in New York (Lebns-fragn, 1 August 1964; National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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