Przewozman Josef

Przewozman Josef received transit visa no. 1930 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. Aged 19 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

19

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

son of #1931

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; 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 4474, Przewizman Józef Szyja, born 1921 at Warsaw, who came from Warsaw; the year agrees with the age the register gives.

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