Malowist Szymon

Malowist Szymon received transit visa no. 2016 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. Aged 43 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

43

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #2017, child Irena (12)

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Irena — child, aged 12

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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…
  3910, Lodz, 1897, from Lodz
• Oral history interview with Irene Rothenberg (née Malowist) — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 38553. Catalogue: born Oct 18 1928, Łódź (Łódź, Poland); born Lodz 18 Oct 1928; Bluman: No.2016 Malowist Szymon, 43, hus…
  USC Shoah Foundation VHA interview 38553: Irene Rothenberg (née Malowist) — her father Szymon — gave a testimony (catalogue: born Oct 18 1928, Łódź (Łódź, Poland)); born Lodz 18 Oct 1928; Bluman: No.2016 Malowist Szymon, 43, husband of No.2017, child Irena (12)